Growing up in the Jewish Bible Belt

the Rocky Mountain News stopped its presses for the last time in 2009, setting a good many talented people adrift, the newspaper’s editorial cartoonist was one of the lucky few who managed to land on his feet. Ed Stein, who drew the cartoons on the Rocky’s editorial page, and for years had also created a homey and localized one-panel called “Denver Square,” had something called national syndication in his corner. In addition to his home base at the News, Stein’s editorial cartoons appeared in several hundred newspapers across the country. “I saw it coming,” he says of the newspaper’s demise, “so I took ‘Denver Square,’ repurposed it as ‘Freshly Squeezed’ and syndicated it. So I made the transition economically.” But in terms of inspiration, he […]