Can editorial cartooning be saved—or is the ink already dry?

On the DMZ America Podcast, editorial cartoonists Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) confront their dying craft—a profession they revered and to which they dedicated their lives.

No newspaper or website employs an editorial cartoonist under 50. The ranks have collapsed from hundreds of working professionals to roughly a dozen.

Photos from the most recent AAEC convention look less like a professional gathering and more like a reunion of retirees: gray hair, canes, and a profession that has aged out in plain sight.

They ask the uncomfortable questions: Did the industry kill itself with self-censorship and shrinking newsrooms? Did social media finish the job? Is there any path back for a form that once punched above its weight in American  ...