Rob Rogers is an editorial cartoonist who was fired in June after 25 years with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His departure, he said, came after weeks of tension with a publisher who wanted a more pro-Trump stance.
"We're living in a very dark time," Rogers told the local NPR station, "in terms of who's in the White House and in terms of embracing what would otherwise be thought of as despicable racism, despicable thoughts."
So it seems grimly fitting that one of the most arresting visual comments on last week's carnage in Pittsburgh — 11 Jews killed by a gunman at the Tree of Life synagogue — came from Rogers, now working freelance.