WSJ’s Charles Preston, 1921 -2020
Charles Preston,The Wall Street Journal’s “Pepper…and Salt” cartoon editor passed away last Friday at age 98. For 70 years (yes, 70!) he edited the “Pepper…and Salt” feature. The Journal‘s obit quotes Mr. Preston as once saying: “I’ve looked at more cartoons than anyone in the history of mankind.”
A number of New Yorker artists found Mr. Preston receptive to their work, including Nick Downes, Mike Twohy, Robert Leighton, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Pat Byrnes, Joe Duffy, Bob Eckstein, Kaamran Hafeez, Paul Karasik. Paul Noth, Benita Epstein, Sid Harris, John Klossner, Ken Krimstein, and John Caldwell.
You can read the WSJ’s obit for Mr. Preston here on The Daily Cartoonist. (The Journal‘s paywall prevents non-subscribers from fully accessing the pieces it has posted on Mr. Preston).
D.D.. Deggs’ Daily Cartoonist piece links to archived Preston-related posts by Mike Lynch and Eli Stein.
Shown above are two of many cartoon collections edited by Mr. Preston: Wall Street Journals Pepper…And Salt: Man’s New Best Friend (1988) with a Bob Schochet cover; The Wall Street Journal Portfolio Of Business Cartoons (1999) with a Mike Twohy cover.
My thanks to the WSJ cartoonist Phil Witte for alerting me to Mr. Preston’s passing, and to New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Robert Leighton for their assistance on this post.
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Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly Speaking to The International Center For Journalists
From the ICFJ’s online “Tribute To Journalists 2020” event earlier this week, here’s Ms. Donnelly (a New Yorker contributor since 1982) speaking on political cartoons.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Kim Warp on the vaccine and hibernating.
Ms. Warp began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit her website here.
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Today’s Daily Shouts
From The New Yorker‘s Associate Cartoon Editor, Colin Stokes, and cartoonist, Ellis Rosen: “What I Like To Imagine The Construction Noise Next Door Actually Is”