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Jake Fuller loses Gainesville Sun job
I’ve just been informed that Jake Fuller, editorial cartoonist for the Gainesville Sun (Gainesville, FL) has been laid off. Jake has been with the paper since 1992 and their full-time cartoonist since 1997.
More details to come as they become available.
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Community Comments
May/19/2008 @ 10:21 am
That’s a true shame. Whether you agreed with his politics or not, Jake has a wonderful style. It’s Gainsville’s loss.
May/19/2008 @ 4:51 pm
Wow. Another layoff. What is going on.
This is getting scary.
May/20/2008 @ 12:59 pm
In considering the current state and dynamics of this profession, I reflect on Wiley Miller’s comments and how much I agree with those thoughts.
I have also argued that “collective bargaining” is a fact…even when no entity of professionals exists such as a union or a guild. The syndicates here assume the role of the anti-union, using their power to consolidate and homogenize; driving DOWN the price and keeping it at a level that generates outscale income for a relative few of the actual producers of this craft, and the continued income stream for the middlemen at the syndicates.
I have no answers for this dilemma, other than being enterprenurial and busy.
May/22/2008 @ 7:55 am
I find it difficult to believe the Sun would remove Jake from his job as political cartoonist for their paper. To me he was a great talent that is perhaps bigger than Gainesville. He specialized in lampooning political figures both local and national. He was biting in his work to both liberals and conservatives. I will miss his contribution to the Gainesville Sun.
I predict he will not remain jobless for long. He is just too big a talent.
Shame on you Gainesville Sun.
May/26/2008 @ 6:01 pm
Jake Fuller is a true artist. I am a writer and he printed many of my letters. I did not always agree with Jake and I never met him. I considered him a friend and he is very talented. I believe we are all born with a gift.Jake,s was his cartoon,s. It is sad to see that being politicaly correct is more important than being speaking your mind. He will be missed.
May/27/2008 @ 10:57 am
Juvenile Jake has a lot of talent, but he belongs on the comic strip pages.
May/28/2008 @ 4:21 pm
As a huge fan of Jake and his work I find this disappointing but not surprising due to the flat-out carelessness of the Gainesville Sun. Jake was one of the highlights of the paper, now what’s left, sports? that’s it? It’s a shame, hopefully “Juvenile Jake” will cartoon for someone else…not the comic strips.
May/29/2008 @ 4:15 pm
Forgive me for kicking Fuller when he’s down, but he was NOT a high caliber cartoonist. I’m sorry that he’s losing his job, but I strongly disliked the majority of his panels. They should have had a warning sign on the front of the paper when they ran his work.
It wasn’t a partisan issue, he truly wasn’t good. I love political cartoons and used to buy a paper in Boston with only political cartoons. I was very disappointed coming to Gainesville and seeing Fuller’s work clogging the editorial page.
August/4/2008 @ 10:18 pm
Joe Gleason should go back to Boston. I found Jake Fuller’s editorial cartoons to be fair and balanced. Mr. Gleason is obviously another liberal who can’t stand a fair view of the faults of both sides of the fence. Mr. Gleason —- get over it— most people like a fair and balanced approach to the news. That is why the networks, CNN, and MSNBC are losing viewers Fox News is growing. Mr. Gleason - open your mind. Jake Fuller is too good to be stuck with the Gainesville Sun. He was the only balance to what is now another left-leaning fish wrapper.
August/5/2008 @ 12:03 am
Fox News is fair and balanced? In what galaxy?
August/5/2008 @ 5:28 am
>>>That is why the networks, CNN, and MSNBC are losing viewers Fox News is growing.
Um..I don’t think so…
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/29/fox-news-losing-its-lead-over-rival-cable-networks/
August/5/2008 @ 8:47 am
The only reason Fox News has become popular over the years is because of the growing proportion of stupid people in this country. Look at the rate stupid people are reproducing. See also Idiocracy.
August/5/2008 @ 9:48 am
Fox is balanced to the right, just as “Think progress” is balanced to the left. So what?
Everyone has an agenda. What’s stupid is that people even bother getting worked up about it.
While CNN and Fox are prospering as the new media, the American comic strip and editorial cartoonist jobs are biting the dust.
October/29/2008 @ 8:45 am
Jake has longed been appreciated by us Floridians. The overcasting shadows of the Gainesville Sun could just not endure anymore their little fortress of Marxism being pummeled.
October/29/2008 @ 9:09 am
Check out Advantage Publishing site. Jake is hard at work.
http://www.advantagepublishinginc.com/
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