The Essential Danby

George Danby, editorial cartoonist, has been drawing and publishing cartoons since he was in high school. His first cartoons appeared in the Providence (RI) Journal, when he was 15 years old. He was the contributing cartoonist for The Bangor Daily News while in school. He became staff editorial cartoonist at the New Haven (Conn.) Register in 1979.  Danby joined the Providence paper six years later as staff editorial cartoonist, before joining the Bangor paper as its full time cartoonist in 1988.

Syndicated with McNaught Syndicate and Editors Press Service, Danby’s work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and National Review, plus numerous weekly and daily newspapers. He has drawn more than 25,000 cartoons since 1974. Frankly, he’s exhausted!

"His [George Danby's] new book, 'The Essential Danby,' is a beautiful album of wry to wicked cartoons aimed at politicians from the presidential to the parochial, from D.C. to Bethesda to Bangor – where Danby has been a cartoonist for the Bangor Daily News since 1986." —Beth Solomon, The Georgetown Dish

"This collection, introduced by Sen. Angus King, provides a beautiful perusal of how consistently incisive and important George Danby has been to Maine journalism over the turn of the millennium."

—Dana Wilde, centralmaine.com