Dwane Powell Announces Retirement

The longtime editorial cartoonist Dwane Powell of the Raleigh News & Observer announced his retirement on Wednesday, according to a short posting on the matter at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists site. Powell either turns 65 this year, or has already done so.

Powell began drawing for the Arkansas Gazette while still in college, and worked in San Antonio and Cincinnati before settling in at the News & Observer in 1975. He would go on to win awards from the Overseas Press Club and Headliners Club, share in the paper's 1995 Pulitzer Prize, and publish three collections of his work. In 2008 Powell fought against a financially related reduction in his services and won. He has been distributed in recent years by Creators Syndicate. It's unknown at this time if the paper will replace the longtime North Carolina fixture.
 
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