Michael de Adder: My editorial cartoon satirizing Trump and the border crisis went viral. Then...
On July 26, I did what I normally strive to do: draw a hard-hitting cartoon on one of the important topics in the news. Little did I know that the cartoon I drew that day would change my life.
The image, which referenced President Donald Trump as well as the recent deaths of a father and child attempting to enter the United States along the southern border pulled no punches. There was a time when a pointed cartoon like that would increase a cartoonists value in the eyes of his or her newspaper. But instead of increasing my value with my newspapers, the next day I lost a freelance job with Brunswick News Inc., a position I held for 17 straight years.
Social media thinks I was fired for that cartoon. My former employers have continued to insist it wasn't. Ive said repeatedly that cartoon was simply the final nail in the coffin and hastened my demise. The process to replace me was already in the works. As reported by the CBC in Canada, Greg Perry supplied Brunswick News Inc. with cartoons in case de Adder decided he didn't want to work the two-week departure agreement.
But before the newspaper had a chance to tell me I was being let go and negotiate a smooth transition, I drew my infamous Donald Trump cartoon. And the next day, instead of getting a two-week departure agreement, I was terminated with no such agreement in place. It was like my previous 17 years at Brunswick News Inc. disappeared overnight.
In my opinion, and given past experiences, I think its likely I wasnt let go for one Trump cartoon. Its more likely I was let go for all my Trump cartoons. But does this matter? Editorial cartoonists are losing jobs for a host of excuses these days, Donald Trump is just one of these excuses.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/my-editorial-cartoon-satirizing-trump-border-crisis-went-viral-then-ncna1029431?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Donald got a Neatness and Order Medal in his military school.
erronis
(15,241 posts)It's pretty obvious that a class of humanity doesn't understand concepts such as irony, sarcasm, humor, double-entendre, etc.
Well, the jokes are on them.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)You lost your job because of a cartoon featuring the biggest "cartoon" to EVER be in US politics. tRump is a joke, that is no longer funny. He is disgusting.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)If not, I hope he gets a job soon! He needs an income like the rest of us, I'm sure. I wonder if he has a spouse to pay the bills until he finds a new job.
I wonder about these things, when I hear of people being terminated. How are they going to make it? What will they do in two weeks when their mortgage is due? Take it out of their emergency savings or retirement fund? I suppose it's easier for married people, if the other one has a decent income.
I hope he's okay. So very talented. That one cartoon alone shoots him to the top of notable political cartoonists, along w/Lukovitch.
Brunswick News must be conservative (that's what the RWingnuts like to call themselves these days).
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)The only other one i could find was a local newspaper in Brunswick Ga.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)"CBC in Canada, Greg Perry supplied Brunswick News Inc. with cartoons in case de Adder decided he didn't want to work the two-week departure agreement. "
Canada has a problem with anti-Trump political cartoons? That's odd.
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)delisen
(6,043 posts)by Pharaoh's daughter-a familiar image and story to generations of Americans and a story of oppression, a parent's determination to save a child, family separation, slavery, and eventual freedom-an image and story that is part of our cultural heritage.
de Adder's cartoon speaks to the choice facing us - are we going to be the people of life and freedom or death and oppression. We have a cultural heritage of both.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)We turned into Hell. The angels are zombies. I don't see a way out of it.