Ralph Hagen, New Editoonist for St. Albert Gazette
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Great West Media’s St. Albert Gazette welcomes Ralph Hagen as its new editorial cartoonist.
The Gazette is launching a new ongoing weekly cartoon, which will feature the talents of Stony Plain cartoonist Ralph Hagen.
Albertan cartoonist Ralph Hagen will juggle humour, satire with local happenings.
Most of us know Ralph Hagen as the creator of The Barn comic strip. But as a 2012 interview reveals he began his cartooning career as a young editorial cartoonist:
I sold my first cartoon to a local paper in 1976 for $8. The sad part is it hasn’t gone up much since then. Anyways, they hired me to do a weekly editorial, and I’ve been drawing ever since.
Through magazine cartooning and comic stripping Ralph never did give up political cartooning.
From Kyle Muzyka at The Stony Plain Reporter in 2015, Ralph Hagen’s hometown paper:
Each week, Hagen produces an editorial cartoon for the Reporter/Examiner, dating back as early as 1976 but becoming a regular in 1991. He started out making just $8 a week (in 1976), and has (hopefully) seen a pay increase in his near-four decades of page six editorial cartoons. He worked 25 years in the oilfield, and though cartooning doesn’t quite pay like the patch, it has its own benefits.
“I’ve never been frostbitten writing cartoons, so that’s a good thing,” Hagen said.
We are unsure if Ralph continues to contribute editorial cartoons for PostMedia’s Stony Plain Reporter.
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