Go, Read: Susie Cagle On Local Issues Cartooning

Susie Cagle has penned a short essay for Cartoon Movement about her experiences making cartoons on local issues, a piece that I think is very strong when it comes to nailing down in concise fashion how the economic issues facing that profession might constantly kneecap cartoonists in terms of their exploring a rich, potential area of editorializing, an area in where they could do a great deal of journalistic good. I'm not sure what the answer is, or if there is one, really. I know that there are some cartoonists with whom we engage on a national-issues level that do local cartoons -- I believe Tom Toles has done a number of cartoons on regional transportation issues, although I can't recall a one, and Joel Pett's 2011 editorial cartooning Pulitzer Finalist status was based in part on his attention to issues facing Kentuckians -- but that kind of example doesn't necessarily facilitate staffed cartooning positions with that kind of focus. I do think you're going to find a number of papers that are reinvigorated through strident leadership on local coverage, so maybe cartoonists being hired to cover those issues will be an outcome of that.
 
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