The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted the owner of The Post, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.

Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.

In a brief statement posted to Substack, Ms. Telnaes — who has worked at The Post since 2008 — called the newspaper’s decision to kill her cartoon a “game changer" that was “dangerous for a free press.”

“In all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at,” she wrote. “Until now.”

Ms. Telnaes included a draft of her cartoon in her Substack post. In addition to Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the cartoon depicted Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg; Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive; Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of The Los Angeles Times; and Mickey Mouse, the corporate mascot of the Walt Disney Company.

David Shipley, The Post’s opinions editor, said in a statement that he respected Ms. Telnaes and all she had given to The Post “but must disagree with her interpretation of events."

“Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force,” Mr. Shipley said in the statement. “My decision was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”

Mr. Shipley added that he had spoken with Ms. Telnaes by phone on Friday and had asked her to reconsider resigning. During the call, Mr. Shipley said he wanted to speak with Ms. Telnaes on Monday, after they had taken the weekend to think things over. He later encouraged her to hold off on quitting to see if they could work out the situation in accordance with her principles.

Ms. Telnaes did not respond to requests for comment.

Matt Wuerker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for Politico, called the decision to kill Ms. Telnaes’s cartoon “spineless,” adding that the storied Post cartoonist Herbert Block, known as Herblock, and Ben Bradlee, a former editor of The Post, were “spinning, kicking and screaming in their graves.”

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48520168)

lol as if

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48520188)

"omg the WaPo now has political agendas!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48520212)

cr. sounds like this cartoon was presenting a novel and important idea with razor-sharp wit and could have been a game changer for political discourse in this country and beyond.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48520194)

do you even know what pomodoro is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48521117)

also lol @ his depiction of patrick soon-shiong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48520197)

https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/1eb58a27-4a58-499a-8bf8-07be23c3c2ee_w960_r1.7855153203342617_fpx36_fpy49.webp

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_176,h_176,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F600be60e-6f21-43c9-84fe-3adcb9fdc94a_1080x1080.jpeg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48520199)

https://x.com/AnnTelnaes/status/1307101883497054211

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48520926)

(actually, RBG's cape is waving goodbye to Roe v. Wade.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48521077)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48521082)

i used to have to take his cartoons downstairs from the news room to composing. that was kinda cool. i'd go into his office while he was finishing up the cartoon on a big ass (like 11 x 17) hard stock piece of paper. he used charcoal pencils to draw them.

he was really cranky and would make dickhead comments to underlings, including myself. i remember once for xmas he brought us a wreath made of hard old people candy. i am fairly sure this guy was worth millions. and he didn't bring us each a candy wreath. he basically tossed this shitty wreath at us news aides.

bob woodward was a real nice guy tho.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48521101)

--election night 2000 (editors were SO MAD when it looked like bush was gonna win, although this was more in the days following the election. but there was absolutely grumbling going on that night. on election nights, they'd bring out a popcorn machine into the news room. it was a cool environment to be in.)

--9/11. i was off that night but they called me in, along with everyone who wasn't working. my boss, a clearly incompetent black woman, scoffed at the notion that 9/11 was as significant as pearl harbor.

--when they caught the DC sniper

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659389&forum_id=2Elisa#48521108)