Seattle Times Parting Ways With Editorial Cartoonist Eric Devericks?



As much as Michael Ramirez's win in the Pulitzer Prize balloting and his subsequent call for a greater value to be placed on more substantive cartooning were bracing news with which to start the week, this hump-day item may be almost as deflating. Alan Gardner reports that Eric Devericks may be out at the Seattle Times unless enough staffers voluntarily leave their jobs and, one assumes, accepts whatever severance package that's being offered to them. The Times is a huge, market-leading newspaper, so for them to be seeking such severe cuts and for one of those cuts to be their cartoonist can be seen as a sign that almost no one in a staffed cartooning position is particularly safe, not anymore.
 
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