Walt Handelsman Retiring
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Editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman has announced through his newspaper that he will retire at the end of this year after a nearly forty-five year career. From Kieth Spera at The Times-Picayune:
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman is putting away his pen and ink after decades of delighting Louisiana with his alternately humorous and poignant takes on the state’s peculiar politics, personalities and events.
Handelsman, 69, will retire from The Times-Picayune | The Advocate at the end of December.
“I’ve been thinking about it for a while,” he said. “I’ve been doing daily cartooning for roughly 45 years. I felt like it’s time to take a break from daily deadlines, reflect on my career, relax and look forward to doing other creative things.”
The Times-Picayune profile details Walt’s career beginning with freelancing around his Baltimore hometown when Ronald Reagan became president, and then for a Maryland media group of small town weeklies where he began his collection of newspaper awards. In 1985 he joined the Scranton (PA) Times.
Walt signed on with The (New Orleans) Picayune-Times in 1989 staying there until 2000 when he left for a dozen years at Newsday. In 2013 the prodigal cartoonist returned to The Times-Picayune.
Handelsman has won two Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning, one in 1997 and the second in 2007.
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