Fitz has a great job.
He is paid to wield a big brush dripping with ink. A few doodle marks here and there and, voila, he has us chuckling about a politician’s big ears or wild hair. And paragraphs -- those are for authors who fret over the fine points of criticism. Fitz needs just a few words to incite or delight us. What a gig!
Except for the reading, looking and listening part of the job. David’s mind is in the “on” position way beyond an eight-hour workday. He reads everything from the news to novels and graffiti. He attends hundreds -- yes, hundreds -- of events each year to talk to readers and sources. He spars with people on Facebook and on the phone.
David sorts through that cacophony to condense his analysis into a point we “get” at once. Nearly 40 years after we first met as University of Arizona students, I still do not understand how he is able to do it -- or how he has the energy. What I have learned is that it takes a smart journalist to create a cartoon five times a week.
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— Bobbie Jo Buel, former editor of the Arizona Daily Star
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