After 52 Years Jeff Danziger Still Enjoys Cartooning and Poking
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Vermont cartoonist and writer Jeff Danziger has been scoffing at the powerful and skewering politicians for half a century. His cartoons have been syndicated in newspapers around the world, and he’s been nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize.
He still draws every day using a blue pencil and churns out about 300 cartoons a year, including his weekly comic strip The Teeds, about everyday life in Vermont.
Danziger wrote a novel about the Vietnam War in 1991. Thirty years later, he wrote a memoir about his own four years in the Army, called Lieutenant Dangerous, which he says is how the Vietnamese pronounced his name. The memoir is funny and sad and mostly describes his anger and frustration at the waste, corruption and death he witnessed. He says his war experience taught him to accept nothing at face value and to hold people in power accountable — something he began channeling into art in the mid 1970s.
Work with the Rutland Herald and Barre Times Argus led to jobs with the New York Daily News and Christian Science Monitor.
Nina Keck for Vermont Public profiles editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator Jeff Danziger.
Danziger publishes his own work these days on his website, Jeffdanziger.com, as well as on Substack and Vimeo . He’s also still syndicated. The journey to get to this point has been a long one.
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