Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from the Washington Post after more than 15 years, accusing her editor of killing a drafted cartoon because of its mocking depiction of the publication’s owner, Jeff Bezos and President-elect Donald Trump.
Telnaes, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2001, explained why she is “quitting the Washington Post” in a Friday post on Substack that showed her drawing of Bezos and other wealthy figures bowing down to Trump.
“I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations — and some differences — about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now,” the cartoonist wrote.
“The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump,” she stated.
An image of her rough draft, posted to Substack and shared widely on other social media platforms, depicts Amazon and the Post‘s Bezos,…
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