Editoonist George Danby Inducted to Maine Press Assoc Hall of Fame
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Fifty years ago this month George Danby became a professional editorial cartoonist when he was published in The Bangor Daily News, now George will be entering the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame.
George was 18 and July 14, 1975 marked the beginning of a career that has lasted to today. Danby became the Monday Bangor Daily News editorial cartoonist on regular staff cartoonist Vic Runtz’s day off. Before the year was out he was making regular appearances in other parts of the newspaper.
George Danby is being honored by his peers:
Longtime Bangor Daily News cartoonist George Danby will be inducted into the Maine Press Association’s hall of fame this fall.
Danby published his first cartoon in the BDN in 1975 as a student at Bangor High School. He went on to draw for the Providence Journal-Bulletin and the New Haven Register before returning to the BDN in 1985.
His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time and USA Today.
Not long after the Charlie Hebdo Massacre in 2015 then Maine Governor Paul LePage replied to a question about Danby with, “I don’t like his cartoons…I want to shoot him.”
On July 14, 2025 Maine Senator Angus King read George Danby into The Congressional Record:
Mr. President, over the course of my career in public service, I have had the distinct pleasure of working with--and sometimes being on the receiving end of interrogation by--hard-working, thoughtful members of the Maine press corps. They work day-in and day-out to keep us government officials honest--and to keep members of the Maine public informed. There are few, however, that have had quite as much lasting impact on all of us as George Danby.
He has drawn nine sitting Presidents and seven Governors. As a former Governor of Maine, I have been stung my fair share by his sharp pen and wit. But humor gets us all and Danby's incredible cartoons have hung in my offices throughout various points of my career. Years ago, I even said that Danby ``has the uncanny knack, essential to the cartoonist's art, of getting to the essence of the matter in a way that's memorable, accurate and usually funny (if being the butt of a joke published in the state's largest newspaper is your idea of funny).''
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