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Mike Lane 1949 – 2019

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D. D. Degg November 18, 2019 1 minute 2 comments

Editorial cartoonist Mike Lane has passed away.

Mike Lane was a Baltimore Evening Sun/Sun editorial cartoonist from 1972 – 2004.

Mike was an early contributor to Cagle Cartoons from 2001 – 2009.

Mike’s cartoons were timely, and they reflected the gifts in his hand, his heart and his brain — his artistic talent, his humanity and his fierce, nurtured sense of right and wrong, all of them working together at the drafting board to produce a witty, often stinging take on a news story, a controversy or political development. Sometimes his subjects were local, sometimes national or international. They were almost always provocative and often hilarious, and sometimes word reached the newsroom about a politician or business owner, or perhaps a posse of Evening Sun readers, who had taken great offense at a Lane cartoon and taken the matter up with the publisher.

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Mike was a modest, quiet, deeply moral man with a razor-sharp sense of humor, and, while sad at his passing, I feel lucky to have called him colleague.

Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks breaks the news and remembers.

The Mike Lane archive at Cagle Cartoons.

A proper obituary as details emerge.