Another Editorial Cartoonist Job Gone

The good folks at Editor & Publisher see a bright side in another paper picking up work from Playboy cartoonist Al Stine, but the news that Roger Harvell is out at the Greenville News in South Carolina is the appropriate lead story, with greater significance. According to E&P's figures, 200 staffed editorial cartoonist positions have shrunk to about 80 since the early 1980s, and I don't know anyone that thinks more than half of the remaining slots are 100 percent safe. Further, the Greenville paper had a circulation of over 100,000 and my understanding is that Harvell did fine work with local issues. This speaks to some conventional wisdom that papers dropped cartoonists from the smallest papers only and almost always those whose focus on national issues made them more easily replaceable by syndicated artists.
 
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