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US Cartooning Tradition in Peril

by D. D. Degg October 3, 2025

In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]

Another Newspaper Fears Making Readers Think

by D. D. Degg August 26, 2025

Another newspaper, this time The Caledonian Record (a family newspaper in Vermont), has decided that political cartoons will no longer be a part of their reimagined opinion page.From Todd Smith Publisher of The Caledonian Record on August 21, 2025: Beginning today, The Caledonian-Record will no longer publish a traditional opinion page or syndicated editorial cartoons. […]