Posted on: May 1, 2006

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/OPINION03/604300301/1271Also leaving the Web team is Larry Wright , an extraordinarily talented cartoonist and our long-suffering softball coach.  Larry learned the hard way that journalists write because they can’t play.

This year’s 38th annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for editorial cartooning went to John Backderf an alternative newspaper cartoonist who draws the comic “The City.”From the press release:Derf aggressively attacks the institutions, ideologies and attitudes that create an environment for the continuing oppression and exploitation of the powerless.