Another Cartoonist Loses Staff Position



A site called The Iowa Independent reports that cartoonist Brian Duffy is among the staffers cut by the Des Moines Register in a brutal cost-cutting purge being conducted by the Gannett group. This is depressing on a a lot of levels. First, the Register is a model newspaper: a Pulitzer-winning anchor to a sizable American community. Second, the Register has a fine tradition newspaper cartooning, including work from Ding and Frank Miller (not that one). Third, editorial cartoons were a selling-point for the paper, as the Register frequently boasted that it ran its cartoons on the front page. Fourth, Duffy seemed to have been a significant part of the paper's on-line presence, including a video profile (it will play like it or not, at the Register's Duffy page) that talks about that front-page thing.

So that's bad news, and I don't think it's out of place to say that editorial cartooning is suffering through a period of hard-to-define freefall that could conceivably end with as few as a dozen people in these kinds of jobs.
 
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