Scott Stantis: New Chicago Tribune Editorial Cartoonist

You can't help but feel so darned hopeful about newspapers, the economy and, specifically, the business of cartooning when you hear that

" ... the Chicago Tribune, one of the country's leading newspapers and a publication without a full-time editorial cartoonist since Jeff MacNelly passed away in 2000, Birmingham News">has announced its hiring of Scott Stantis of the Birmingham News. "

-- Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter

Related: AAEC Press Release by Ted Rall

Chicago Tribune: Chicago Tribune hires Scott Stantis as editorial cartoonist