The Washington Post‘s Michael Cavna took a look at the surviving newspapers that still have a staff cartoonist —spoiler alert: the number is now around 25— and asked “what’s with all the white guys?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/02/16/political-cartoons-diversity/
The consensus among the many cartoonists the Comic Riffs reporter interviewed is: even if publishers were to start hiring a diverse slate of cartoonists, it’s too late to make a difference.
Over at The Daily Cartoonist, Michael Peterson has a few trenchant comments on the WaPo piece, and places the blame squarely where it belongs: on editors who wouldn’t know a good cartoon no matter who drew it:
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/02/17/csotd-the-future-of-political-cartoons-if-any/
