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David Willson: Editorial cartoonist for the Palm Beach Daily News David Willson creates a cartoon about Palm Beach culture and politics for the editorial page of the Palm Beach Daily News every Sunday.

Andrew was a lot of special things rolled into one human being. He was talented, witty, smart, open-minded and doggedly ...
24/08/2024

Andrew was a lot of special things rolled into one human being. He was talented, witty, smart, open-minded and doggedly hard-working. He could always be counted on, and in that sense, was the bedrock of the Palm Beach Daily News for many years.
Because I was a freelancer, which only entailed brief visits to the offices for editorial board meetings, my relationship with Andrew was that of a very long-term, 30-year, acquaintance. And yet, we were definitely valuable collaborators to each other in the work we did. Many's the time he offered insights and suggestions that made my cartoons better.
He was calm, cool and collected, with a polite and on-point demeanor when people didn't see eye-to-eye on a controversy, including readers who he needed to work with to get letters to the editor in publishable form.
Andrew's editorials were always rock solid, concise, perceptive and had an air of gravitas about them. Editorials are hard to write. And Andrew had a special knack of being able to clearly delineate the newspaper's position every week in a way that piqued the readers' interest early and closed with emphasis and conviction. In addition to everything else he contributed to getting the daily issues out (and that was a lot), he always brought his A-game on Sunday. To say he is missed is an understatement.
My wife, Kayla, and I are very sad to hear of Andrew's passing and our thoughts are with his wife Dana and family.

He is survived by his wife Dana, children Christopher, James, and Amanda, all of Boynton Beach, and his brother Tom (Beth) Davis of Raleigh, N.C.

Good news and bad news.The good news is that I received first place honors from the Florida chapter of the Society of Pr...
20/08/2024

Good news and bad news.
The good news is that I received first place honors from the Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists again (2002, 2023, 2024).
The bad news is that Sunday August 25th will be my last cartoon for the Palm Beach Daily News. The publisher, Gannett, has cut the budget to eliminate the feature.
I have produced a Sunday cartoon for the Shiny Sheet for 32 years, and thoroughly enjoyed the gig. Never missed a deadline. I also greatly appreciate all of the readers who have followed and commented on the work — even those of you who took issue with it. The whole point for me has been to put the story of the week into a broader context with humor, so that we all could give it a little more thought.
For now, I will keep this page going and occasionally do what I did with my Cartoonistry columns, pulling a cartoon out of the archives with pertinence to what is going on today and comment on it. Of course, the name will have to change to Former editorial cartoonist of the Palm Beach Daily News :D

Under Gov Ron DeSantis, Florida covers its ears and shouts blah, blah, blah whenever the words “climate change” are spok...
11/08/2024

Under Gov Ron DeSantis, Florida covers its ears and shouts blah, blah, blah whenever the words “climate change” are spoken. He has even turned down $billions in federal funding because those words were attached to it. Why?

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News :

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News  : After the attempted assassination of former president Trump, the Secret Service increas...
28/07/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News : After the attempted assassination of former president Trump, the Secret Service increased security around Mar-a-Lago by shutting down AIA (the only North/South road), effectively splitting the island community of Palm Beach in two at least until November 5.
Unpopular? You bet!

Production deadlines mean my Palm Beach Daily News   is created Thursdays to run Sunday. So I wake up this morning, only...
21/07/2024

Production deadlines mean my Palm Beach Daily News is created Thursdays to run Sunday. So I wake up this morning, only to read that Aaron Sorkin has written that Democrats should choose Mitt Romney over Biden. Trying to get out in front of life’s absurdities today as an editorial cartoonist is pointless.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial  .
14/07/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial .

My July 4 Palm Beach Daily News editorial   was a reminder that the exemplary freedoms we have enjoyed for 248 years are...
07/07/2024

My July 4 Palm Beach Daily News editorial was a reminder that the exemplary freedoms we have enjoyed for 248 years are not written in stone, but on paper. Still, even the Supreme Court does not supersede the will of the people. We do not select them, but we elect the people who do. Our choices matter. .

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial  : Palm Beach has always attracted colorful people.
23/06/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial : Palm Beach has always attracted colorful people.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News   Rich or poor “buyer beware” still matters.
16/06/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News
Rich or poor “buyer beware” still matters.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial
09/06/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial

My Dad used to say, live and learn, die and forget it all. There are some lessons that that should be remembered, even t...
26/05/2024

My Dad used to say, live and learn, die and forget it all.
There are some lessons that that should be remembered, even though the generation that experienced them fades.

Art: an homage to Bill Mauldin.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial cartoon.
19/05/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial cartoon.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial  : Florida is swamped with nefarious notions.
07/04/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial : Florida is swamped with nefarious notions.

Mr. E. “Bunny” Whitehouse was the victim of slanderous gossip by Miss Information this year. How unsocialable media of h...
02/04/2024

Mr. E. “Bunny” Whitehouse was the victim of slanderous gossip by Miss Information this year. How unsocialable media of her.

Donald Trump's campaign and supporters are claiming US President Joe Biden banned religious symbols from the White House's Easter celebrations and proclaimed the Christian holiday Transgender Day of Visibility. This is misleading; the youth egg art contest's rules followed guidelines that have been....

The Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach is an awesome community resource because it is more than just a Library. It...
01/04/2024

The Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach is an awesome community resource because it is more than just a Library. It offers many wonderful programs for adults and children that are free and open to anyone from Palm Beach County, even though they pay the tutors and instructors and supply everything from computers and Internet connection to yoga mats.

Many authors (including myself) have launched their books from its well appointed auditorium. It’s as much a community center and continuing education center as a library — very ambitious in its scope. The library is a service of the City of West Palm Beach, but supplements its funding — especially that of its many programs — through grants and direct fundraising. These programs would not be available without such generosity.

My wife and I are active supporters and would like to invite anyone who wants to help support this wonderful and historic local institution to join us on an afternoon cocktails cruise, Saturday, April 20th from 2-5 pm. Tickets are limited and currently on sale through April 4. Come aboard and join us. It will be fun and we look forward to meeting you.

Spring has sprung and the car carriers are out. They remind you of something. Now, what was it?Oh, yeah.
31/03/2024

Spring has sprung and the car carriers are out. They remind you of something.

Now, what was it?

Oh, yeah.

Hey! I’ve been neglecting you Palm Beach Daily News   Facebook followers. Here’s a bunch of cartoons to catch up. They’v...
26/03/2024

Hey! I’ve been neglecting you Palm Beach Daily News Facebook followers. Here’s a bunch of cartoons to catch up. They’ve been mostly about local stuff lately.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News  : A couple of years ago Governor Ron DeSantis unleashed anti-woke vigilantes on Florida s...
21/01/2024

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News : A couple of years ago Governor Ron DeSantis unleashed anti-woke vigilantes on Florida schools and said teachers should be focused on reading, writing and arithmetic.
Today … well, um … maybe arithmetic?

Palm Beach needs to build a cat wall. And Palm Beach County oughta pay for it.
14/01/2024

Palm Beach needs to build a cat wall. And Palm Beach County oughta pay for it.

Hmm, it seems I forgot to post last week’s Palm Beach Daily News  : It’s not what you know or who you know in Palm Beach...
12/01/2024

Hmm, it seems I forgot to post last week’s Palm Beach Daily News : It’s not what you know or who you know in Palm Beach this season. It’s what you know about who you know.

Somebody doesn’t understand parody.Either that or they’re being disingenuous.Check out this article from Palm Beach Dail...
31/12/2023

Somebody doesn’t understand parody.

Either that or they’re being disingenuous.

Check out this article from Palm Beach Daily News:

The writer suggests that the cartoon does not reflect the values of Palm Beach, and it should.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial  .🎉 Happy New Year. 🍾Let’s make it a happy decade.
31/12/2023

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News editorial .

🎉 Happy New Year. 🍾

Let’s make it a happy decade.

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News  : ‘Twas the night before Christmas at Mar-a-Lago. And then on Truth Social …
24/12/2023

Today’s Palm Beach Daily News : ‘Twas the night before Christmas at Mar-a-Lago. And then on Truth Social …

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