Chicago Trib Hires Editorial Cartoonist, Filling Spot Vacant Since 2000

Unlike some newspapers we could name that are ditching their artists, The Chicago Tribune has hired Scott Stantis, currently the staff cartoonist for The Birmingham News and creator of the syndicated comic strip “Prickly City” to fill its staff editorial cartoonist position, a job that’s been vacant since the death of Jeff MacNelly in 2000.

“The Chicago Tribune is bullish about the future of newspapers, and so am I,” said Stantis. “The Tribune believes that editorial cartooning is an integral part of that future, and I am therefore thrilled and humbled to be given this opportunity.”

The Birmingham News said it does intend to fill the vacancy Stantis will leave.

(h/t Cagle.com)

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