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Larry Wright, Past Detroit News Cartoonist Who Was Syndicated, Dies at 77

May 23, 2017, 9:42 AM


Larry Wright (Detroit News photo published with permission)

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.”


Read more:  The Detroit News


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