Bob Englehart wryly describes what an editorial cartoon must look like for today's newspaper editors to buy it.
"A political cartoon but it can't be too political. It can't have caricatures. It can't be pointed. It has to be general, not take sides. It can't offend if I want to get it published. Wait, I've got it!"
Seen on The Daily Cartoonist
About the author
Bob Englehart was born on 7 November 1945 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and was the first full-time editorial cartoonist for America's oldest newspaper, The Hartford Courant (founded in 1764).
He joined the Courant in 1980, where he worked for 35 years, until a hedge fund bought the paper and took him off the job.
After studying at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Bob drew for Chicago Today. In 1972, while working as a freelance commercial artist, he began his career as a newspaper cartoonist, drawing freelance for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. His first full-time job came in 1975 at the Dayton Journal Herald and, four years later, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the editorial cartoon category. Caglecartoons distributes his work in newspapers around the world.
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