Michael de Adder on his Washington Post tenure

In the 2024 Kesterton Lecture with Michael de Adder, at the Carleton School of Journalism and Communications, he discusses his time with the Post. This is the first time I've heard a reason for him leaving the WaPo, and he chalks it up to the editorial page editor's death.

[Starting at 1:01]

 When I was hired by The Washington Post, I was hired to take over Tom tole's job. Now the most celebrated cartoonist in one of the most celebrated cartoonists in the world used to work for the Washington Post, a guy named Herblock. He changed cartooning. He was one of the people who modernized cartooning and made cartooning what it is today. The funny thing is  this was the era of Ben Bradley and Watergate and when they were going to replace Block, they announced that they were going to give Tom Toles the job. Tom Toles is an excellent cartoonist. He's nothing like Herblock but that's a good thing. I was there on the day that it was announced he was taking over and Ben Bradley said this to him in front of a whole room of cartoonists, "You have big shoes to fill." What a terrible [thing to say]. It is true he had big shoes to fill, but don't say that in a room full of cartoonists.

He did great though. I thought he was one of the best, but a year later they hired Ann Telnaes to also work online and I thought they produced some of the best cartoons in America. Not the best in Canada -- we're really good cartoonists here.

So when Tom Toles decided to retire, and he retired the day after Trump lost which I thought was a classy thing to do, I told my manager that I wanted to show interest in getting that job. I didn't expect to get it, and I got it, and it was great at first. I think I started off a little slow.

Fred Hiatt, the guy that hired me, in 2022 at Thanksgiving he had a heart attack and died. It was a massive heart attack and I think he died something like within two weeks.I always felt like I only had one person on my side at the [Post]. I probably had 10 people on my side at the Washington Post but I really only felt like I had one person. Now it happened to be the main person so he's the person you want to have on your side, but when he died, I knew that it's possible that my career with them was going to end. The new guy came in and I do believe that he had a mission to make things a little more conservative and and I don't know if that came from the boss or if it came from or where it came from -- all I know is that the first conversation I had with him, all he talked about was all the cartoonists he liked and he didn't mention me. That doesn't bode well, but anyways you know these things happen. The paper wanted to go further right and I'm clearly not on the right.

At 1:12 when being questioned about being fired four times, he returns to the point, saying it wasn't about the money:

[At] The Washington Post, it was purely point of view. In fact they were paying
me twice what they should have for one cartoon, just to keep me there so that they could quietly let me out the door.

Matt Wuerker has a cool job according to Washingtonian magazine

Cool Jobs - The Cartoon Pundit - Matt Wuerker 

Washingtonian 2024-03 p. 43

illustration by Jess Rotter

Daniel Boris editorial cartoon catch-up #2

 Our second and final posting of Boris's political cartoons from last year. He tells me he had tried to give up on editorial cartooning (and thus stopped submitting them here), but kept drawing them anyway.

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish 11/20/23
Penguin Joins the Presidential Race 11/18/23
Dictator Wannabe
Commemorative U.S. Stamp Design: "American Organized Crime Bosses"

 

Peace Out, Pandas! 11/10/23
ME the People 11/5/2023
Middle East Push Pin 11/2/23
The Housingsphere12/31/23

 

 

 

Hateful Stew 10/30/23
Putin's Sincerest Condolences 10/25/23
Putin Hypnosis 10/24/23
The Devil Made Her Do It  10/19/23

 

 

 

A Dysfunctional U.S. House of Representatives 10/17/23
New Speaker Summons Dark Lord 10/10/23
Update All 9/28/23
The Menendez Hieroglyphics 9/24/23
Alien Political Parasite 9/20/23

 

 

Daniel Boris editorial cartoon catch-up #1

 It's the great Daniel Boris editorial cartoon catch-up!

Red Sea Puppet Master 1/15/24
You Are What You Eat 1/14/24
SEAL Team Say What Now? 1/11/24

 

 

Negotiating Slavery 1/8/24
Santa Knows 12/24/23

The Natural 12/21/23

Go Fund Yourself 12/15/23

 

 

The Sewer Surfer 12/10/23
I Do Not Like That, Sam-I Am 12/8/23
Discarded 12/1/23
Elon's Enemies 11/22/23

 

 

Comic Arts Deaths in 2023 (final)

This will be updated as notices continue to come in. The list is an annual feature of the Comics Research Bibliography. Updates are marked with * - list finalized as of Jan 18, 2024.

 

Deaths in 2023 (with thanks to Bruce Guthrie’s Wikipedia mining, *Jamie Lang’s Cartoon Brew list, *John Freeman’s Down the Tubes list, *Wikipedia’s 2023 in Comics page, *DD Degg’s Daily Cartoonist list, *Didier Pasamonik’s ActuaBD list, and *Animation Magazine’s list) included editorial cartoonist Jim Adcock, Harmony Gold animation distributor Frank Agrama, Swedish animator Per Åhlin, Orang Utan Comics founding member Azim Akberali, Japanese manga artist Ryuzan Aki, *Dutch cartoonist Henk Alleman, Italian cartoonist Carlo Ambrosini, *animator Craig Armstrong, DC Comics librarian Allan Asherman, Belgian comic book artist Jo-El Azara (aka Joseph Loeckx), Spanish cartoonist Toni Batllori, Dave Comics (Brighton England) manager Stephen Bamford, Canadian animator Ted Bastien, Jack Bender, Golden Age comic collector Jon S. Berk, *animator Susan Bielenberg, tv animation syndicator Edward Bleier, Russian animator Natalya Bogomolova, *BC Boyer, *Disney animator David Braden, *animator Ernesto Brieno, Hero Initiative coordinator Kevin Brogan (of Covid), French comics writer Jean-Yves Brouard, Chris Browne, *animation checker and painter Susan Burke, *British comic artist John Burns, British experimental animator Paul Bush, political cartoonist Clay Butler, *French comic writer Thierry Cailleteau, Italian cartoonist Renato Calligaro, *French cartoonist Louis Cance, Doonesbury inker Don Carlton, Brazil’s Paulo Caruso, French BD artist Jean-Claude Cassini, Italian comic book artist Massimo Cavezzali, “Yarns of the Yellowstone” cartoonist Bill Chapman, *storyboard artist John “Rich” Chidlaw, *Duck Soup Produckions co-founder Roger Chouinard, TV’s first Lois Lane Phyllis Coates, *French cartoonist Thierry Courtin, animator and Disneyland designer Rolly Crump, India’s Amul girl’s creator Sylvester daCunha, *animator Sukhdev Dail, *Scottish comic writer Jim Dallas, *Dutch cartoonist Wim de Bie, Bob de Groot, Toonz Animation Studios cofounder Bill Dennis, Elizabeth Woodward’s “Column for Teens” header cartoonist Ellen Derby (nee Keefe), *Belgian editor-in-chief of Journal Titnin Henri Desclez (aka Hapic),*British animator Alan Dewhurst, alternative cartoonist Michael Dougan, Canadian voice actor Ross Douglas, semi-pro panel cartoonist John Dusko, *Swedish comic artist Lennart Elworth, *British animator Ian Emes, Spanish cartoonist Enrich (aka Enric de Manuel González), *animator Don Ernst, comic book artist Steve Erwin, Brian Ewing, New Yorker cover artist Ian Falconer, *French exhibition curator and member of the Quai des Bulles festival Alain Faure, Wally (Trog) Fawkes, Yugoslavian Bosnian gag cartoonist Hasan Fazlic, Charles A. Filius, comic book inker John Floyd, *Australian animation legend Cam Ford, *animation storyboard artist Gerry Fournier, British graphic novel writer Christopher Fowler, Disney animator Randy Fullmer, *Hungary’s Attila Futaki, Argentine comics artist Ernesto García Seijas, Raleigh Comic Book Expo organizer Russ Garwood, American cartoonist Paul Giambarba, 2000AD's Ian Gibson, Joe Giella, MCU visual effects producer Diana Giorgiutti, Earthworld Comics store owner JC Glindmyer, Uruguayan cartoonist Tabaré Gómez Laborde, Pluggers contributor Gregory Grabiak, Dan Green, The Ph.D. Culture Cartoon Book author Gary Grobman, Dærick Gröss Sr., Sam Gross, comic store owner / Marvel employee / Geppi consultant Gary Guzzo, King of the Hill voice actor Johnny Hardwick, *British underground comix publisher Lee Harris, disgraced Australian cartoonist Rolf Harris, John Hart Studio gag writer-colorist-letterer Perri Hart, *animation technical director Vahe Haytaian, comic strip and comic book cartoonist Frank Hill, comic book historian Roger Hill, Egyptian cartoonist Ibrahim Hunaiter, British political cartoonist Tony Husband, Spanish cartoonist Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Japanese voice actor Shōzō Iizuka, David Illsley, *anime director Satoshi Iwataki, Luke Cage TV writer Nathan Louis Jackson, John Jakes, *animation writer Gregory Joackim, Creators Syndicate comics department manager Pete Kaminski, *Doc Savage comic book cover artist Roger Kastel, *British comics agent Pat Kelleher, Japanese animator Takahiro Kimura, *animation color designer William “Bike” Kinzle, *animator Tony Klück, Edward Koren, Disney and animation historian Jim Korkis, illustrator Sandy Kossin, stop-motion animator Pete Kozachik, artist and graphic designer Frank Kozik, *Tatsunoko Productions anime studio co-founder Ippei Kuri, Japanese voice actor Yasumichi Kushida, *Belgian comic artist Lagas, *Softimage founder Daniel Langlois, *animation storyboard and layout artist Lin Larsen, *Space Ace publisher and comics writer John Lawrence, "postmodern cartoon art expressionist" David “LEBO” Le Batard, gag cartoonist Bill Lee, ‘Mulan’ singer and Chinese voice actor Coco Lee, South Korean cartoonist Lee Woo-young, editorial cartoonist Jay Leeson, *French cartoonist Pierre Le Goff, French cartoonist Paul Leuquet, *animation technical director Nick Levenduski, Emily & Toby cartoonist Virginia Lindemann, original Wednesday Addams actress Lisa Loring, French BD author Malo Louarn, *animator Gerald “Jerry” Loveland, *animation production manager Anne Luiting, *British cartoonist and animator Ric Machin, *animation layout artist and character Istvan Majoros, syndicate comics editor Sharon Malheiro, *animator Walter P. Martishius, collector Harry Matetsky, British comic book company Beyond The Bunker founder and colorist Ivanna Matilla, anime producer Shunpei Maruyama, Leiji Matsumoto, Disney animator Burny Mattinson, Bruce McCall, Ian McGinty, *Disney animation historian Russell Merritt, Amanda Panda and Harvey Pekar artist Jack Millie, comic book artist Lee Moder, Harvard Lampoon cartoonist Bob Moncrieff, Italian comic artist Giuseppe Montanari, NCS administrator Latisha Moore, Pluggers writer Tom Moore, *animator Ken Mundie, *Coco’s Mexican voice actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, Hisaya Nakajo (aka Peco Fujiya and Ryou Fumizuki), Russian animator Vyacheslav Nazaruk, Indian cartoonist Ajit Ninan, Norwegian cartoonist Dina Norlund, Crash Bandicoot videogame voice actor Brendan O'Brien, collector and scholar Richard D. Olson, Italian comic book artist Graziano Origa, Ukrainian writer for TCJ Evheny Osievsk, Dutch cartoonist Richard Pakker, voice actor Jansen Panettiere, *Argentine comic artist Carlos Pedrazzini (aka Salomon Grundig), Scott Pellegrini, Sri Lankan cartoonist Camillus Perera, French cartoonist Jean-Louis Pesch, Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty, Italian comic artist Luigi Piccatto, Canadian political cartoonist Peter “Pic” Pickersgill, *animation writer Duane Earl Poole, underground cartoonist Joshua Quagmire (aka Richard Glen Lester II), *animator Dick Rauh, Paul Ramboux aka “Sidney”, MCU stuntman Taraja Ramsess, animation writer Michael Reaves, *animation voice actor Lance Reddick, *French-Canadian Hubert Reeves, *voice actor Paul Reubens aka Pee-wee Herman, *animation background designer Jeffrey Riche, *cel painter Filonella “Nellie” Rodriguez Bell, *animator Jessie Romero, Portfolio Entertainment’s co-founding partner and CEO Joy Rosen, Mexican artist José Luis Ruiz Pérez, Pittsburgh comic book shop owner Ron Russitano, animator William Ruzicka, *animator Lucinda Sanderson, 'Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto' manga creator Nami Sano, St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoonist Al Schweitzer, Japanese voice actor Mitsuo Senda, *French comics artist Patrice Serrin, Belgian animator Raoul Servais, Gerry Shamray, Robotman creator Peter Shelley, Kentucky comic store owner Rickey Sheppard, *Brazilian comic book colorist PC Siqueira, comic book writer Steve Skeates, Dutch comic store owner Han Slotema, colorist Jasen Smith, Fox Television Animation storyboard cleanup artist Jeff Scott Smith, Harley Quinn inspiration and voice actor (and Tiny Toon Adventures writer) Arleen Sorkin, American voice actor Peter Spellos, art dealer Allen Spiegel, Italian cartoonist Sergio Staino, *animator Allen Stovall, *Strahle’s Baliwick comic panel cartoonist Jim Strahle, former college editorial cartoonist Robert Stringer, Indian cartoonist Sukumar, African-American animator Leo D. Sullivan, Beano “Bash Street Kids” artist David Sutherland, Canadian animation supporter Hélène Tanguay, Italian artist Saverio Tenuta, Buichi Terasawa, *Italian writer Antonio Tettamanti, Toei President Osamu Tezuka, direct market pioneer Mel Thompson, British comic strip cartoonist Bill Tidy, St. Petersburg Times editorial cartoonist Joe Tonelli, Japanese manga artist Yoshiko Tsuchida, French BD writer Eddy Vaccaro, comics historian and art dealer Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., *Dutch cartoonist Rupert van der Linden, *Netherlands-based Academy Award-winning animation producer Cilia van Dijk, *French publisher of Marvel Claude Vistel, ‘Lois & Clark’ writer and producer Jeff Vlaming, Mike Voiles of Mike's Amazing World of Comics website, Egyptian cartoonist Ragai Wanis, voice actor Jimmy Weldon, *Dutch cartoonist Harr Wiegman, MECCAcon founder Maia Crown Williams, Doug Wright Awards patron Phyllis Wright Thomas, Studio Ghibli art director Nizo Yamamoto, editorial cartoonist John “Yardley” Yardley-Jones, *Swedish cartoonist Leif Zetterling.

WaPo doesn't understand comics 3: This is an editorial cartoon? [UPDATED]

With all due respect to Ellis Rosen, whom I don't know at all, why is this on the editorial page of the Washington Post. Is this a political cartoon? If so what does it mean?

I'm absolutely serious about asking what does it mean. One might have expected to find a cartoon like this in the New Yorker 35 or 40 years ago, but one expected nonsensical comics from them.

The Post made an extremely large mistake by not appointing Ann Telnaes to replace Tom Toles (or Herblock even IMHO), and they continue to compound it by running works like this. 

For their home cartoonist, we should have someone that lives here. Michael de Adder is a perfectly competent cartoonist, but he's a Canadian who stayed in Canada and works on a contract. He's not a WaPo employee. To add to the disrespect they show him, the editor runs his cartoons smaller than this one is, and his color cartoons with extensive cross-hatching are run in black and white, so they are extremely muddy and sometimes unreadable. We deserve our own local cartoonist, and one who is treated with respect, in the great tradition of Herblock.

 

5/16/23: formerly local editorial cartoonist Al Goodwyn wrote in to say that a version of the cartoon had a title of "Monumentally Exhausted" -  here it is in the online version, which I don't understand any better.  Hmmm, the link calls it "Washington Chaos" which isn't any better as a title.

Finally, just to be clear, I know and like Michael de Adder, and I like his work when it's printed in color and larger than 4x4." He's still not a Washingtonian, even a transplanted one like Block, Toles, Telnaes (and me). Also, I'm sure Ellis Rosen is a fine cartoonist - as I said, I don't know him. I just didn't think the Post's editorial page was the place for this cartoon. As a filler on another page, which newspapers used to do, I would have glanced at it, perhaps smiled, and moved on. Adding to this blog on a computer, and not writing it on my phone like I did last night, I can see that he actually IS a New Yorker cartoonist. Good for him. I subscribe to that print magazine too, but I'm way behind on reading it.

Catching up with Daniel Boris on his editorial cartooning

 A bit over a decade ago, I interviewed Daniel Boris for the Washington City Paper. He recently reached out to talk about his fledgling political cartoon career.

As I believe you already know, I've loved cartooning since I was a kid and my childhood dream was to be a syndicated comic strip artist. I graduated from art school and have been a professional graphic artist for most of my life. I was also a finalist in the 2010 Washington Post's, "America's Next Great Cartoonist" contest, with a comic strip I called "Hoxwinder Hall."

Several years ago, after more than 25 years of working in that industry, I was laid off and decided to try something completely different. I became a licensed home inspector, and then in late 2018 I became a real estate agent. In 2019 I won Rookie of the Year at my brokerage and have fortunately been a top-producing agent ever since. For a couple of years there -- while I was busy working as a real estate agent -- I didn't create any art at all and I eventually started to miss it. During lulls in my real estate business I began creating art again, and it's the editorial cartooning that I enjoy the most.

 

Currently the only place my editorial cartoons are being published is on my own social media platforms (my blog, Facebook, InstaGram, and Twitter pages). I've received very positive feedback wherever I share my cartoons. My most recent cartoon is the Before/After Elon Musk Twitter piece. So far  that cartoon has received 265 Shares on Facebook, which makes me feel pretty good. You never know when your art will resonate with people on a large scale, but that one certainly does!

 

 

 

I create my cartoons entirely digitally now, drawing on a WACOM tablet, in Adobe Photoshop, using a desktop PC. After the 2016 election, I was inspired to start creating editorial cartoons. I was mostly lampooning Donald Trump, because how could you not, right? So much material there... Ha Ha! My first political cartoons were pretty rough, but the more of them I created, the better I got at it. Over the past 6 months I have made an effort to consistently produce more cartoons. I believe the quality of my work has significantly evolved and become polished to the point that I now aspire to be a professional syndicated editorial cartoonist. I'm friends on Facebook with quite a few syndicated editorial cartoonists. They all have been very gracious with their feedback and complimentary of my work. Because of their encouragement, I have gained the confidence to begin reaching out to syndicates.

 

 My links:

Blog (this is where all of my editorial cartoons, preliminary sketches, and commentary can be found): www.DanielBoris.blogspot.com

 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanielBoris.Cartoonist

 
Instagram: @DanBorisCreates

Twitter: @DanBorisCreates

Website: www.DanBoris.com

Comic Strip Website: www.HoxwinderHall.com

That darn de Adder and Popeye - letters on comics reveal the Post's biases

More like Pop-eyes

Jonathan Sanford, Daniel B. Johnston

Washington Post November 5 2022 p A19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/reader-critiques-kanye-west-headline-wrong/

So these letters from the print edition on Nov. 4th continue the Post's habit of running irrelevant letters from aging comics readers (of which I am one). It's absolutely obvious, and has been for years, that the Post's Style editor has no interest in the comics pages, and the editorial page isn't interested in fact checking when it selects letters about those pages. The Post in fact dissolved its own syndicate for comics and editorial cartoons this year, leading Amy Lago, the editor of that side business to decamp for Counterpoint's new syndicate.

 

Back to the letters - Jonathan Sanford wrote upon the retirement of the single-client Post-only Flashbacks strip by the 79-year old Patrick Reynolds "at least get some new strips that are funny and enlightening. I suppose "Calvin and Hobbes" is no longer available."  No, in fact it's not. Because Bill ended it in 1995 - 27 years ago.

 

Daniel B. Johnston objects to Popeye's reboot (by a young cartoonist) because "When I watched Popeye on TV as a youth, I began to note its overuse of politically incorrect terminology and actions... Why not replace misogynistic "Popeye" with one of [a new female-written comic]?", but those cartoons he's complaining about were movie animation reruns from 1933 -1957, (65 years ago if you're counting) and completely irrelevant to the current comic strip which, at least on the Sundays we've seen, barely features Popeye in favor of female characters.

 

And Nancy, which Sanford complained about, is done by an anonymous woman cartoonist, and Mark Trail has been rebooted with a woman cartoonist doing it. I agree that the Post should revisit its comics page though, first increasing the size to make it legible, and then dropping zombie strips such as the daily Doonesbury and Peanuts, which are pure reruns and not even legacy strips

This weekend the Post ran a 2-page full-size Steve Martin / Harry Bliss cartoon in the Book World and a full-page Dabin Han strip in the Travel section - proving that some of the paper's editors get the idea that comics still attract readers.

 

They were supporting earlier letter writer, Michael Zarowny's opinion "The Post's daily comic section contains a number of strips that already have a loyal readership who would applaud getting an additional Sunday helping of beloved characters, such as Ray Billingsley's "Curtis," Tom Thaves's "Frank and Ernest" or Bill Holbrook's "On the Fastrack." Even giving us the Sunday retreads of "Classic Doonesbury" would be superior to "Popeye," especially if they were Watergate-era Sunday strips from when Garry Trudeau was funny."  As I noted previously on this blog, Doonesbury is new on Sundays, the only day it's not a repeat.

I don't agree with the editorial cartoon letter either which disagrees with Michael de Adder drawing Kanye West as a clown due to his outspoken political beliefs  - if you're a public figure and you act like a clown, it's fair game to draw you as a clown even if some members of the public such as Bridget Zarate would like to diagnosis you from afar as mentally ill and give you a pass.

Wake up, Post!

Bridget Zarate

Washington Post November 5 2022 p A19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/reader-critiques-kanye-west-headline-wrong/

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award editorial cartoon list updated

 A list of Robert F. Kennedy cartoon journalism awards

Incomplete list harvested from Wikipedia, Guide to the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation Records, and other places - 

 1983

·  First Prize cartoons: Don Wright, Miami News

·  Citation, cartoon: Sam C. Rawls, The Atlanta Constitution

*1985

Paul Conrad

1986

·  Citation, cartoon: Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: H. Clay Bennett, St. Petersburg Times

1987

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Bill Day, Detroit Free Press, "The Color Black 'n' Blue".

1990

Paul Conrad?

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Mike Peters, The Dayton Daily News.

*1992

·  Paul Conrad, Los Angeles Times (per NY Times)

*1993

Paul Conrad?

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Don Wright, The Palm Beach Post, "Perot for President".

*1994

Mike Luckovich for cartoons that reflect positively on the disadvantaged.

Jack Higgins, finalist

1995

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Constitution.

1997

·  Cartoon: Doug Marlette, Newsday.

1998 - format changes to have winners in each category

1998

Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow)

1999

·  Domestic cartoon: Joel Pett, The Lexington Herald Leader.

2000

Domestic cartoon: Ted Rall
Universal Press Syndicate

2001

Domestic cartoon: Matt Davies
The Journal News

2002

Cartoon Prize: Signe Wilkinson
Philadelphia Daily News

2003

Cartoon: Dan Perkins ("Tom Tomorrow")  "This Modern World"          

2004

Cartoon: John Sherffius                        

2005

 Cartoon: Mark Fiore
 

2006

Cartoon: John Backderf
"The City"

2007

Clay Bennett

2008

Cartoon: Signe Wilkinson
Philadelphia Daily News

2009

Cartoon: Jack Ohman
The Oregonian

2010

Cartoon: Bill Day
Series of cartoons,
United Feature Syndicate

2011

Cartoon: Gary Varvel
"The Path to Hope"
The Indianapolis Star

2012

Cartoon: Stephanie McMillan
"The Beginning of the American Fall and Code Green"
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

2013

Cartoon: Jen Sorensen
 
2014

Cartoon: David Horsey
“Portfolio by David Horsey,”
Los Angeles Times

2015

Cartoon: Darrin Bell
"Darrin Bell 2014 Editorial Cartoons,"
The Washington Post Writers Group

2016

Cartoon: Angelo Lopez, “Editorial Cartoons,”
Philippines Today
 
2017

Cartoon: Mike Thompson, “The Flint Water Scandal,”
Detroit Free Press

2018

Cartoon: Ruben Bolling, Andrews McMeel Syndication, Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and GoComics
“Tom the Dancing Bug”
Syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication

 2019

Mark Fiore's “Family Separation in Cartoons”
KQED News and online news outlets

 2020

JD Crowe of the Alabama Media Group  

2021

"Invulnerable" from Thi Bui and The Nib

 2022 

Clay Jones

2023

Joel Pett

(updated 3/18/2024, marked with *)

Arlington has a new political cartoonist platform for Mike Mount

Mike Mount is doing them weekly since at least July 25th and as of Oct 22nd, they can be seen at https://www.arlnow.com/tag/cartoon/

"Each week we've been bringing ARLnow Press Club members a new editorial cartoon by Arlington resident Mike Mount.

Starting this week we're going to start publishing the toons here on a regular basis, after hearing from members that they prefer that Press Club content be seen by the entire ARLnow community.

Members will still get an early look at the cartoons, much like they get the Morning Notes four hours early each day, as well as a a preview of the stories we're planning to cover later in the day."

John M. Baer, revisited

 11 1/2 years ago, I ran across the name of a local political cartoonist, and tracked down some info about him:

Henry Elderman? John M. Baer? UPDATED. (February 1 2010): https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2010/02/henry-elderman-john-m-baer.html

John M. Baer. (February 2 2010): https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2010/02/john- 

So who was editorial cartoonist John M Baer anyway? (February 9 2010): https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2010/02/so-who-was-editorial-cartoonist-john-m.html

and then completely forgot about him until Stuart McIntire found an obituary for him and put it on Facebook with a link to my previous posts. 

Vienna, David. 1970. Cartoonist John Baer, 83, Dies, Coined FDR's 'New Deal' Slogan. Washington Post (February 23)

With his permission, here's Stu's scan of the obituary: