‘I completely feel like my 15 minutes are up’: de Adder moves on after Trump cartoon attracts global attention, says he has some irons in the fire

Few cartoonists become international sensations overnight. They tend to operate in obscurity, though their cartoons may occasionally attract notoriety or backlash.

Cartoonist Michael de Adder, right, pictured at a Hill Times event in 2013 with Hill Times publisher Jim Creskey, centre, and Global News reporter David Akin. His pointed critique of U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration policy has become an international sensation after his contract with longtime client Brunswick News was terminated. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY Beatrice Paez

July 8, 2019

Political cartoonist Michael de Adder found himself turning his home office in Halifax into a war room last weekend to deal with the global attention of media requests after he lost his job over, he suspects, his anti-Trump presence online.

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