JEFF MACNELLY DIES AT AGE 52

By: Dave Astor Pulitzer Winner Did Editorial Cartoons, 'Shoe'



This year hasn't been kind to cartooning. Four months after the death of renowned
'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz, one of the world's top editorial cartoonists has
also passed away.



Virginia-based Jeff MacNelly, who died of lymphoma Thursday at age 52, was so
imitated that the term 'MacNelly clones' became part of the newspaper lexicon. His
political drawings featured detailed yet loose art, and hard-hitting yet wry
commentary - usually of a conservative nature.



But the Tribune Media Services (TMS) creator was more than an editorial cartoonist.
He also did the 'Shoe' comic, which at one point ran in 1,000 newspapers. And he did
illustrations for Dave Barry's humor column, which appears in 500-plus papers.



MacNelly joined the Richmond (Va.) News Leader in 1970, and won Pulitzer Prizes in
1972 and 1978. He moved to the Chicago Tribune in 1982, and won a third Pulitzer three
years later.