Cartoonists a Part of Newspaper's Long History

Cartoonists are journalists, too. Below are a few of the cartoonists and illustrators who were on the staff of the Mobile newspaper. Do you know of others?

Kentuckian J.D. Crowe began his journalism career cartooning for the Eastern
Kentucky University newspaper, the Eastern Progress. His professional journalism began at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1982. He joined the Mobile Press Register in 2000. Today, he is the statewide cartoonist for the Alabama Media Group. You can see more of his works on his profile page.

The Mobile Press and the competing Mobile Register employed
cartoons in their battle for dominance from 1929 to 1932. This
one criticizes the Press for its supposed backing by the Alabama
Power Company. Many power companies financed newspapers
during the period. No artist's name appears on the cartoon.

After Iowan artist John Keith Henry left the U.S. Coast Guard in 1945, he worked
as and illustrator and cartoonist for the Mobile Press Register. He moved to
Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1948. This image is from a blog maintained
by his son, Robb Henry at John Keith Henry Drawings and Paintings.

Many Mobilians grew up reading Walter Overton’s Southland Sketches.
The Texan studied at the Arts Students League in New York and privately
in Boston, Italy and France. Overton also was a newspaper man as well as
an artist and traveled to the southern coastline in the 1930s. After crossing
Perdido Bay, through Summerdale and making camp in Fairhope,
Overton fell in love with South Baldwin County and spent 40 years publicizing
the region. He started creating weekly sketches in the late 1930s that he sold
exclusively to the Mobile Press Register, where the sketches
were published for 37 years.