By: E&P Staff Bill Day, editorial cartoonist for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis for the last 10 years, has been laid off, according to The Daily Cartoonist blog. He will continue his syndicated cartoons through United Feature Syndicate.
When asked about his next move, Day told the Daily Cartoonist, ?I don?t know what I?m going to do. I have a mortgage and kids. I guess I?ll just have to see what happens next.?
The award-winning cartoonist, who reportedly was in shock over the sudden layoff, told the blog his tenure at the Commercial Appeal was wonderful. ?I loved every minute of it. I can?t believe its over. I love the city, the paper.?
Day won the Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2006, 2005, 2001, and 2000. The recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award, he has also been honored with the National Headliner Award, the John Fischetti Award, First Amendment Award, New York Newspaper Guild's Page One Award, National Cartoonists Society's Award for Best Editorial Cartoons, and James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
In 1980, Day was hired by the Philadelphia Bulletin as a full-time political cartoonist. After the Bulletin folded, he first joined the Memphis Commercial Appeal and later left for the Detroit Free Press, where he remained for 13 years. He returned to the Commercial Appeal in 1998.
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