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WaPo Lets Edith Pritchett Go?

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For two years cartoonist Edith Pritchett has been a controversial opinion page regular at The Washington Post due to her non-political cartoons that are more about cultural/social affairs than about affairs of state.

Edith Pritchett for The Washington Post March 8, 2025

Now it seems that she has been left behind as part of the upheaval currently going on at The WaPo.

Mike Rhode at ComicsDC informs us:

Edith Pritchett hasn’t appeared for 2 weeks and the website shows her last cartoon on March 8th. She may have been let go after David Shipley was forced out by Bezos. Shipley had hired her. If so, the Post has no cartoonists left on staff and only rightwing Michael Ramirez on contract.

Edith began contributing a weekly cartoon to The Washington Post in March 2023. That turned into a twice weekly appearance beginning seven months later in October 2023. Until March 8, 2025, it seems.

Edith Pritchett continues her cartoons for The Guardian as she has since 2021,

while Jeff Bezos’ New Direction Washington Post garners praise from President Trump.

UPDATE:

Edith Pritchett returned to The Washington Post after a 20 day absence.

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  1. The WaPo can die in darkness. That’s why Bezos bought it. To kill it.

  2. the problem with her, was that her stuff wasn’t political commentary. It would have been fine on the comics page or one of the other sections, but not where it was…

    …and speaking about the POST’s comics page. Why is CRABGRASS only on the print pages and only on weekdays?

  3. Right. Back in the day it might have run in Weekend (Tom the Dancing Bug did), Style, or the Magazine. Not anymore.

    I missed that Crabgrass isn’t in the Sunday. That’s a loss. It’s a good strip. Remember when the Post had 2 comics sections on Sunday?

    1. I remember a time when here on the opposite coast I could get the Sunday Washington Post at a local(ish) newsstand – that was 50 years ago. Now I can barely get The S.F.Chronicle outside the Bay Area.

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