Political cartoonist Michael de Adder has been released from his freelance contract with a major Atlantic Canada newspaper chain soon after he drew a viral cartoon that criticized Donald Trump using imagery of a father and daughter who drowned trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. “2 went viral and the third went supernova and a day later I was let go,” the Halifax-based cartoonist wrote. “It is entirely incorrect” to say de Adder’s contract was cancelled over the immigration cartoon, the chain said. The image, which shows the U.S. president on a golf course looking down at a pair of dead migrants, went viral soon after De Adder announced he had been let go. On Twitter, de Adder said he had until recent weeks censored himself from drawing Trump for fear he might be fired.

Source: thestar July 01, 2019 19:30 UTC