Richard Crowson laid off from Wichita Eagle

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1. Steve Greenberg

   Sad, sad, sad. We won awards together as college cartoonists. Another veteran with decades of service to his newspaper and perhaps the one cartoonist really covering his state… yet another sacrifice to the almighty Bottom Line.

2. J.G. Moore

   Editorial cartooning is dead. Anyone who goes into this is nutz!!! Be a plumber!!!!

3. Tim Daly

   The Chicago Tribune just changed it’s format, dropping the Local Draw feature. That was the Sunday Perspective section’s free lance local content editorial cartoon spot. They had that for a few years, paid pretty well, but, thing of the past now. Also the comic strips are even smaller.

4. Jonathan Nathan

   Terrible news. You’re right, Greenberg: the only guy covering this state.

   I wonder how many cartoonists thought that the media deregulation which allowed these corporate giants to assume control over every outlet in the country was a good idea.

5. Bruce Bales

   It is sad. Crowson’s cartoons were one of my favorite things in the Eagle. Gradually everything is going towards ‘Online.’

6. Cliff Davis

   Did anyone else do a double-take on Crowson’s “DisembARKment” cartoon depicting the Flood Stage of this year’s bluegrass festival in a can of trash? I’ve talked with both pickers and campers who were offended by that image. Certainly nothing to loose his job over however.

7. Mike Mawhirter

   GOOD RIDDANCE! THE GUY WAS OVER THE TOP BIASED.