When What You Love is Self-Destructing

D. D. Degg March 29, 2023 1 minute 4 comments

Kevin Necessary got a letter asking why he is no longer drawing editorial cartoons.

He tore up the first draft because he didn’t want to feel that way.

I began to feel pretty [effing] bitter.

*_{© Kevin Necessary/Cincinnati Enquirer}*

What Kevi n finally wrote in a Twitter thread:

I’m not going to share what I wrote. So I’ll just say this: Thank you to everyone who supported my cartoons. I want you to know how much I’ve appreciated your support over the years. It means the world. I wish I could have done more for you.

The vast majority of newspapers are no longer supporting a vital service to the country as warning the populace and pulling down the pants of the powerful takes a back seat to pablum and profit.

Addendum: most of the negative feelings I have are directed at the situation, not people. I don’t live in the right time period or market to make a living as an editorial cartoonist. I’m not unique in this.

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H.J. carlson

Kevin N. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen your cartoons but your statement seems very sad. Don’t give up on speaking out about those idiots in politics! You’re only speaking the truth and what most of us feel. The politicians seldom care what we feel about their actions because they have a 2or 4yr job they can’t be fired from!??

Chuck Legge

I know how you feel. You might try Artizans in Canada. I don’t make hardly anything, but at least my stuff is still out there.

Emily Brown

What a bummer. Kevin Necessary’s kneeling Statue of Liberty cartoon was superb, among others. It is a shame to miss out on his commentary.

Milt Priggee

America’s newspaper have been journalistically bankrupt for decades. They have been shooting holes in the bottom of their sinking boat to let the water out.

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