Chicago Sun-Times Celebrates 60-Year Anniversary With Editorial Cartoons

I wanted to post about this article and accompanying slide show concerning the power of political cartoons that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times because they were done in a context I couldn't appreciate without the actual newspaper or E&P informing me: as part of the publication's 60th anniversary. Not only am I a proponent of the Sun-Times' under-appreciated history with the cartoon and its frequent employment of heavy hitters and skilled practitioners, but I think we're going to see a trend in future years towards the expanded, creative utilization of a newspaper's cartoon resources like this. The multiple ways the Chattanooga newspaper is going to use Clay Bennett is one sign of this, I think; the use of animation created by staff cartoonists is another (although not without some potentially unpleasant repercussions).

This seems to be a hot topic among the cartoonists themselves, perhaps because the situation is for the moment a little more stable than in past years when an analysis of the state of editorial cartooning almost automatically became people looking around at the papers closing and all the positions being eliminated and the only thought that came to mind was "Oh, crap!" Jim Borgman asks some sound, fundamental questions. Henry Payne provides an answer or two from his perspective here.
 
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