Steve Sack Has New News Outlet
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In 2022 Steve Sack retired his position as staff cartoonist after 42 years at The Minnesota Star Tribune. Then last Fall Steve began drawing again, posting his political cartoons on a newly formed Art of Sack Substack.
Now MinnPost (“an independent, nonprofit newsroom producing in-depth reporting on the most consequential civic and cultural affairs in Minnesota”) has contracted with Sack to contribute to their site.
From Scott Gillespie at MinnPost:
With that mission in mind, we’re excited to announce three Community Voices initiatives that will add depth and variety to our opinion lineup.
The headliner is Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Sack, who has overcome health issues and is back drawing his distinctive cartoons commenting on the news of the day. We’ll publish a new Sack cartoon each Thursday at MinnPost, while he continues to build an audience for his art on Substack.
The introduction of Steve Sack to MinnPost readers includes a feature story about the cartoonist’s return to drawing by Eric Ringham:
“I had cancer a number of years ago, and I was treated with chemo and radiation, and they cured me. I was off work for maybe five months, but I came back and I was doing cartoons again. … Things were going fine.
“But as they say, radiation is the gift that keeps on giving. After three years I started getting a numbness in my fingertips, and the numbness spread up my arm, all the way up to my neck. At first they thought it might be a carpal-tunnel-type thing, and I had surgery for carpal tunnel.
“And that was the last day I could hold a pen or pencil in this hand, in my drawing hand. So I had to retire, like that. I couldn’t do my job.”
The above cartoon is not yet on Steve’s Substack so the MinnPost Sack’s View may have a “first look” clause. (Update: the cartoon was posted to The Art of Sack during the writing of this item.)
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