Former Detroit News cartoonist Larry Wright, who did amusing editorial cartoons, and also produced the national comic strips, "Wright Angles" and "Kit 'N' Carlyle," died Sunday following a brief illness, The Detroit News reports. He was 77.
His 45-year career began at the Detroit Free Press and spanned more than three decades at The News.
Lynn Henning and Charles E. Ramirez write of their past News colleague::
He drew images, people — and cats — marvelously. He had a playful wit. And his wide range of interests matched his intellect, all of which made a longtime cartoonist professionally unique and personally indispensable.
“Larry had this old-fashioned notion that to be funny and make a point, you didn’t have to be mean or over the top,” Tom Bray, former editorial page editor, tells The News. “Instead, in his editorial cartoons, he relied on a sly sense of humor to underscore the absurdities, pomposities and human frailties to which we all fall prey.”