Texas now has zero staff political cartoonists, as Houston Chronicle fires Pulitzer winner

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IT’S COME to this: Texas, the second largest state in the union — and the home of so many historically colorful political voices — lacks a single staff editorial cartoonist.

Nick Anderson, the veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Hearst-owned Houston Chronicle, got word last week that his position had been eliminated.

Which raises the question: Why part ways with one of your most prominent political voices?

“The odds caught up with me,” Anderson wrote last week on Facebook, speaking to the decades-long thinning out of America’s staff-cartooning ranks. “Ironically, thanks to social media, my cartoons are seen more widely than ever.”

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Cartoonists are some of the last truth-tellers in the MSM. Some examples of his work:

[Gothmog]

1. I know an editor at the Chronical and need to find out what is going on

[NastyRiffraff]

2. Good. Please report back if you can!

[LudwigPastorius]

3. His firing is probably motivated by the same reason papers are getting rid of reporters.

They are hemorrhaging money. Why pay someone to work for you when you can just run a toon pulled off a syndicated wire service?

[Achilleaze]

4. Thou shalt not criticize the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

Because he's also a republican snowflake.

Republican/Corporate/Fascist Censorship

[Blindingly apparent]

5. I have like him since he stays in Louisville I wish him well