Farewell to Tom Toles, one of our greatest editorial cartoonists

This bit of news isn’t quite as catastrophic as everything else that has gone wrong (so far) this year, but it’s pretty damn close.

Tom Toles, one of America’s best editorial cartoonists, has retired after 50 years of skewering deserving simpletons (including Donald J. Trump) and focusing attention on important issues (such as climate change).

Toles, who spent the last 18 years at The Washington Post, won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning in 1990 and was a finalist for that award in 1985 and 1996.