When people find out I work with Fitz, they usually ask a variation of the same question: “Is he always like that? You know, on?”
The answer is no, he’s not always “on.” He’s not a human hybrid of MAD Magazine and Guy Smiley — at least not all the time.
David is a smart, wry and caring guy with a giant heart and an absurdity-detector that runs on overdrive 24/7.
And, he works from home.
Love him or loathe him, it’s nigh impossible to not have an opinion about David Fitzsimmons and his cartoons.
Readers who contact the Star typically want Fitz fired yesterday, or declare him a national treasure.
In fact, I was just interrupted by a phone call from an irate man who declared, in increasing decibels and increasingly colorful language, that David Fitzsimmons is an abomination and a disgrace and an embarrassment, and a… well, you get the drift. It comes with the territory. The Star also publishes conservative syndicated cartoonists, but those don’t garner the same intensity of response as Fitz’s homegrown arrow-slinging.
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But some of Fitz’s best work has nothing to do with politics, and you’ll find many reader favorites in this book. The “Code of the Saguaro” captures our desert home, and the world from a quail’s point of view makes me laugh every time. I hope they make you chuckle, too.
— Sarah Garrecht Gassen, Editorial Page editor of the Arizona Daily Star
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