Lee’s cartoon following the 911 attach featured a jet liner crashing into a WTC tower. The caption as I remember it read…

“Now we know why Star Wars would never have worked.”

The single most important event in his long career and he uses it to take a jab at Ronald Reagan.

I rest my case.

I’m going to miss his wit with my morning papers.

it is said that one shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds them nor should one burn bridges behind them, for one never knows when they might need to retreat.

judge brought pleasure to many with his cartoons and made many more THINK.

I think it’s sad that a paper in a city this size cannot claim its own editorial cartoonist.

Best wishes for whatever comes next in your path, Lee.

Crazy world….I used to tease Lee that all he did was draw cartoons ! But it was more than that, he made people think about stuff and we need that in this day !

I did do a radio cartoon gig in 1993 after the old Lincoln Journal cut me loose. This was in the early days of the Internet, so we faxed a Fell ed. cartoon each week to everyone who requested it. The radio station got paid and I got paid via a sponsor. The whole thing was wildly popular with hundreds of people nationwide on our fax list. There was even an AP story that hit the national wires that resulted in a slew of interviews wanting to know how a guy could be “america’s only radio editorial cartoonist”.This lasted for a year until one day the station manager decided to pull the plug. His rationale was “I like projects that have a beginning and an end.” Brilliant.

I have tried without success to talk radio stations into running a cartoon (either gag or editorial) on their web sites. Like newspapers, they are cutting staff as fast as they can. As for TV stations, well, journalism and television news are generally two different animals. Local stations used to do hard hitting on-air editorials about topics like “The new city leash law is a good idea and we should all support it”. Wow. Like radio, they are afraid of their own shadows and God forbid that some sponsor or viewer/listener should care enough to call the station and complain about an editorial cartoon.

Neither television stations nor radio want to spend money… they just want to take it in. Bill’s right about getting paid in movie passes and concert tickets. They all want to talk about trading your product for advertising. I don’t need “exposure”, I need cash.