Editorial cartoons for the Delaware Gazette by cartoonist Dan Collins

  In 1996 the Delaware Gazette wanted to start using my editorial cartoons for local issues and also national topics. The newspaper was at that time the nation's oldest daily newspaper that had been owned by a single family through it's entire history. In 2004 the Thompson family ended their publishing career with the sale of the Delaware Gazette to Brown Publishing of Cincinnati. A span of 170 years marked its tenure in Delaware County news reporting. I am honored to have been the editorial cartoonist for the Delaware Gazette in the last eight years of its existence as an American tradition in newspaper coverage. I am sad that the family was unable to continue for many more years. Such is the state of the newspaper industry in today's world. Small newspapers are being gobbled up by large impersonal firms and the objectivity of newspapers is becoming more and more of a concern as a result. Cartoonists of great talent are being let go from the staffs of large dailies. Who knows where it will all end. When all news is delivered by one source how can we trust it?
  Still it was a great joy to have had a paper I could call my own if only for a time! (Aside from my high school paper for which I was the editorial cartoonist. (Where I also had my first brush with censorship. A story for another time.)
  I have always been interested in political cartooning and was thankful to have had the chance to be a published editorial cartoonist. I also won a number of awards from the Associated Press Society of Ohio over the peroid. The plaques hang from the walls of my studio and are a source of pride for me. You can see them listed on the About page of this site.

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