Minnesota Star Tribune Headline: Steve Sack is Back
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An article by Jennifer Brooks about former Minnesota Star Tribune cartoonist Steve Sack (or here):
Sack was the Star Tribune’s editorial cartoonist for 42 years, producing 10,000 cartoons and a Pulitzer Prize in three simple steps: “I read the paper, I crack a joke and I draw a picture.”
But by 2022, nerve damage left him unable to hold a pencil or even draw a farewell cartoon when he announced his retirement. He wrote his farewell instead.
“I miss working at the paper. I miss the colleagues and the readers, too,” he said.
The life of a cartoonist can be solitary. “It was me, sitting and thinking. Me, sitting and scribbling. Me sitting and drawing,” he said.
So Sack would come to the Star Tribune newsroom, sit in on the morning meetings and draw in quiet corners of the building or in skyway coffee shops.
The article is very nice but disappointing. The headline had me excited that The Minnesota Star Tribune* had put Steve back on the payroll – if not staff, at least as a contract editorial cartoonist.
Alas, no.
The Star Tribune does note Steve’s return at other venues:
Last fall, he launched a Substack, “The Art of Sack,” on the digital publishing platform, sharing vintage political cartoons from his archives.
And now, Sack is back in the news. His work will appear in MinnPost once a week, starting this month.
They link to Steve’s Substack but not to Sack’s View at their competitor the MinnPost (so we do).
*Aside:
I was this many years old when I became aware that The Minneapolis Star Tribune had changed their name to The Minnesota Star Tribune a year and a half ago.
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