Edith Pritchett Returns as WaPo Opinion Page Cartoonist
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After four months away from The Washington Post Opinion page Edith Prichett has returned.
The Washington Post’s prominent placement of non-political cartoons by Edith Pritchett and others on the newspaper’s opinion-editorial pages have raised the ire of some in the past.
Edith Pritchett began appearing weekly in early 2023 and by the end of that year was getting twice weekly placement. With one short break she appeared until November 15 of 2025. We will see if this is a steady gig and the frequency of her cartoons.
Can we assume she becomes one of the two contract cartoonists for the paper? Michael Ramirez, staff editorial cartoonist for The Las Vegas Reveiew-Journal, is a contract political cartoonist for The WaPo, appearing weekly since May 29, 2023.
Wikipedia says The Post is the third most circulated newspaper in the U.S. behind The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It is the newspaper of record for the United States capitol. It has not had a staff editorial cartoonist since Tom Toles retired on October 30, 2020.
Other Washington Post contract editoonists in the 21st Century include Ann Telneas (2008-2024), Michael de Adder (2020-2024), and the Pia Guerra/Ian Boothby team (2022-2023).
Otherwise, and more increasingly of the past few years, the nation’s third largest newspaper buys syndicated material rather than create their own.
Note: this is not meant to disparage Edith or other non-political cartoonists that are conspicuously placed on The Post’s opinion page, rather it is to decry the actions of The WaPo’s opinion page editors David Shipley (2022-2025) and Adam O’Neal (2025-present) and, of course, the newspaper’s owner who is increasingly meddling in the journalistic standards of The Post.
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