Brian Duffy, who
lost his job after 25 years as the award-winning front page editoonist for the Des Moines Register, is now
self-syndicating cartoons about Iowa issues to
Iowa
newspapers. "There is one aspect of cartooning that I have missed,” he
explained to the Ogden (Iowa) Reporter, “and that is regularly
drawing cartoons that deal with this great state. I have visited many if not
most of the towns in Iowa — including Ogden — as a cartoonist and
the host of the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, better known as
RAGBRAI. Years ago,” he continued, “when the Register was truly a statewide newspaper, my cartoons and those of
my predecessors, Frank Miller and Ding Darling, could be seen in print
river-to-river. My goal is to give newspapers and their readers throughout the
state a unique feature that they won't find anywhere else." Duffy’s
national-themed cartoons will still be syndicated in over 400 newspapers
nationwide through King Features Syndicate, and he draws cartoons for the Des Moines weekly
newspaper, Cityview. Moreover, his
work has expanded to television, with his cartoons incorporating sound and
motion on 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news programs twice a week.
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