Don Wright to Continue Cartooning for TMS at Least Until the End of 2008

By: E&P Staff Don Wright, who accepted a buyout from Florida's Palm Beach Post, was the subject of an editorial yesterday by his editor.

Randy Schultz noted that Wright will continue drawing for the Tribune Media Services syndicate through the end of the year before deciding how much he'll want to work after that.

Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, drew more than 11,000 cartoons during his 45-year career at The Miami News (starting in 1963) and the Post (starting in 1989).

"Don is an irascible perfectionist," wrote Schultz. "His cartoons reach the level of art, but at 74 he retains the soul of a cub reporter, checking the facts on which he bases a cartoon."

The complete Palm Beach Post editorial can be seen here.