A Seattle cartoonist is getting some attention in South Carolina for a cartoon that uses elements such as a rebel flag, a moonshine apparatus and a noose to depict southern workers.

Editorial cartoonist Milt Prigree (view Milt’s cartoons here) forwarded me a video from this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ (AAEC) Convention.
The video features Halifax Chronicle-Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon singing “Better Days,” a song he wrote about the plight of editorial cartoonists amid cutbacks and job eliminations.
For those of you into the popular [...]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer / The Stranger
The Post-Intelligencer seems to be heading for an online-only future, with certain key staffers notified of their selection to be part of the 20-or-so member team.

Metro reporter Hector Castro said he turned down the offer to join the “lifeboat” because it would increase his health insurance cost, cut his salary, required [...]

David Horsey is going to Washington to cover Barack Obama’s inauguration. Should be a good way to get his mind off the potential closing of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Speaking of Horsey, he appeared on a local Seattle radio station, and was told by a Seattle Times columnist that “when one of your competitors looks like its [...]

Once a strong two newspaper town with competing editorial cartoonists, Seattle now faces the prospect of not having a local voice penning cartoons as The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington’s longest-published newspaper, has been put up for sale.
After a local Seattle television station broke the news, the newspaper’s staff was called into a closed meeting with Steven [...]