An Artist Who Will Be Missed
April 13, 2009 · By Matthew Campbell
Sad news came this weekend as British Columbia Japan-based political cartoonist JJ McCullough has announced an indefinite retirement from his Filibuster Cartoons site. The site has been a personal pleasure to read for years and I only wish JJ the best. As one who took a retirement from all things political for a while, I can certainly understand the relief that comes with leaving the sandbox to the kids but hope that Filibuster will be back again one day. For readers who never knew the awesome work of JJ, treat yourself to his archives from the past decade!
That’s a real shame. I’ve been a fan of JJ’s for years. In fact, we use his cartoons on Maple Leaf Web [http://www.mapleleafweb.com/political-cartoons].
Good political cartoons are hard to find.
JJ is a great artist and one of my favorite political writers and cartoonists. I will miss his sassy Canadian look at politics and hope his hiatus is just a vacation while he endures life in Japan.