While I'm talking about editorial cartoonists, let me take this opportunity to pull this profile of Henry Payne IV from the Charleston Gazette out of the miscellaneous and quick entries. I don't think I'd ever read a profile of Payne before. It's a pretty good one, too, talking a lot about his background as a favored son of Charleston as opposed to the usual blank slate such articles claim for artists, when they bother to talk about a cartoonist's upbringing at all. I also didn't know he was a wire editor for cartoons at one point, nor did I know that he supplemented his political cartoons with a weekly cartoon about cars.
That last thing is what interested me the most, because I think we're going to see a lot more of that kind of regionally focused special feature in the future, as newspapers struggle to compete with as much unique content as they can get out there, and as papers with staff cartoonists press that advantage as best they can.
