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Change we can believe in: Delivered by a 75-year-old cartoon

Thomas Mitchell
May 8, 2009 - 6:26 am
 

Our editorial cartoonist JIm Day tells me this 1934 Chicago Tribune cartoon by Casey Orr has been making the rounds on the Internet on various cartoonists' Web sites for several weeks.

Jim says Ed Bagley, cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune, is the one who first dug it up. 

I asked our corporate attorney Mark Hinueber about any copyright issues and he assured me the copyright was still in force.

I was first e-mailed a copy of the cartoon by retired R-J pressman Dick Borghi. I asked him where he got it and he said he got it from a person who got it from a person who got it from a person who used to live in Chicago named Jessica Sawicki, who just happens to the secretary for ... wait for it, Mark Hinueber.

Today, after getting e-mailed another copy of the cartoon from a reader, I went looking to see if I could find the cartoon somewhere in the public domain so we could use it.

I found this version, which I've linked to, on what appears to be today's Chicago Tribune Web site. It has a cutline but I could find no rational explanation for it being there. It appears to be the same old clipping and not from microfilm.

For what it is worth, and is a bunch:

 

 

 

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