Chris Britt Let Go From Springfield's State Journal-Register

Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist caught that the editorial cartoonist Chris Britt has been dismissed from his staff position at the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois. You can see Britt's devoted page here, including a bunch of local/regional issue work and a special focus on state legislative issues. An unabashed liberal-perspective cartoonist, Britt is syndicated by Creators and was a former client of Copley News Service. He's been cartooning since 1990 and was in his current position for I believe a little over a dozen years. The reason for his firing seems to be straight-up economics; the paper apparently owes a lot of money to its creditors. A recent report on the state of editorial cartooning indicated that the number of fully-staffed practitioners could fit in a standard college classroom (about 40 people), so every loss is going to be even more deeply felt despite the numbing effect of so many cartoonists losing similar positions over the last decade.
 
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