I've just learned of the passing of editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson this past Friday at age 66. Carlson started drawing for the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1983, and continued brightening Brew City editorial pages for 25 years until some idiot at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel decided that the paper no longer had any use for an editorial page.
This is one of Carlson's first cartoons for the Sentinel (if not actually the very first), and an early fan letter:
Everything is temporary when you come down to it, but I guess that editor's note should have served as an omen.
Carlson continued drawing for Universal Press/Andrews McMeel Syndication after the Journal-Sentinel let him go, and as recently as May 31.
Carlson won the 1995 Fischetti Award for this one:
The Journal Sentinel and Daily Cartoonist have more examples of Carlson's work.
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