By: E&P Staff Award-winning editorial cartoonist Bill Schorr, whose cartoons are distributed to newspapers four times each week by United Feature Syndicate, has decided to retire.
Schorr is a two-time winner of The National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Editorial Cartoon, having received that honor in 2008 and in 1993. He was also nominated for the award in 1997 and 1998. In 1993, he won the Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, and he was named the top editorial cartoonist of the year for 1992 by the National Press Foundation.
Schorr began his editorial cartooning career in 1973 at The Kansas City Star. In 1978, he moved to The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, where he remained for nearly a decade before returning to the Star. Schorr was staff cartoonist for New York?s Daily News from 1997 to 2001.
In Schorr?s stead, United Feature Syndicate is offering cartoons by another award winner, Bill Day, political cartoonist for the Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal. Day won the Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2006, 2005, 2001, and 2000. The winner of five Robert F. Kennedy Awards, he has also received the National Headliner Award, John Fischetti Award, First Amendment Award, New York Newspaper Guild's Page One Award, National Cartoonists Society's Award for Best Editorial Cartoons and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
In addition to his editorial cartoons, Schorr has done the comic strip "The Grizzwells" for Newspaper Enterprise Association since 1987.
Editors looking to replace Schorr?s cartoons with Day?s can contact United Media customer service, at 1-800-221-4816.
Comments
No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here