Daryl Cagle: Cartoonist, Syndicator
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For nearly 50 years Daryl Cagle has been illustrating. For over 30 of those years he has been an editorial cartoonist and since the year 2000 he has owned and operated Cagle Cartoons, the largest syndicator of editorial cartoonists.
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“Here is Trump killing PBS and of course these guys all live in my brain I have drawn them so many times.”
The Muppets live in his brain, too.
“The first half of my career I worked for The Muppets,” said Cagle.
Then came political cartoons.
He soon moved to another paper.
“I had an opportunity to switch to the daily newspaper in Hawaii which let me draw world and national events, from that I went to Slate and MSNBC and they were a nice opportunity for me too and grew the audience,” said Cagle.
He also started helping other editorial cartoonists.
“I got a bunch of other cartoonists to work with me and I started a syndicate so now I represent about 100 political cartoonists from all around the world, mostly in hundreds of newspapers, mostly in the United States.”
One cartoon that was in more than a dozen papers sparked controversy and ended up on television.
One anchor said critics called it the desecration of Mexico’s flag.
Cagle defended it on CNN saying, “all I was looking to do here is make a statement that the violence in Mexico is terrible and make it visually compelling.”
Discussing the broad range of cartoons across the political spectrum offered by Cagle Cartoons Daryl notes “that it is the not strong cartoons that get printed, newspapers are becoming more timid.”
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