About the Back Cover

In December of 2008, Tribune Media Services, my syndicate at the time, commissioned me to draw an illustration featuring Barack Obama and several of our other presidents for a special Inaugural Edition to be published by The Chicago Tribune.

About the Back Cover

If only it were so simple!

The illustration posted at right is the original I did for the Tribune. The managing editor and I had agreed on the concept and the rough draft had been approved. When I sent the finished art, it, too, was approved.

And so the story might have ended. But, a couple of days later, the editor called me to say there was a problem. Tribune Media’s president did not like ...

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