Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons says:
In my 66th year of life, I have decided to cut back to a column and a cartoon a week, enter the realm of joyful semi-retirement and enjoy the gift of time.
I’ve been essentially doing the same thing nearly daily for the past six decades.
I’ve been meeting cartooning deadlines since I was 13, on the staff of the “The Tumbleweed,” the Naylor Middle School yearbook. At Rincon High School, I drew for the “Rincon Echo,” then for the underground paper, the “Frumious Bandersnatch,” then the “Arizona Daily Wildcat” with side trips to “The Pretentious Idea” and the “Tombstone Epitaph.”
After earning my degree in graphic design, it was the “Oklahoma City Times” and the “Daily Oklahoman,” then onto Chesapeake Bay to work for the “Virginian-Pilot/Ledger Star,” followed by the “Daily Press of Newport News.” At age 30, “The Arizona Daily Star” hired me, and after years of shameless begging I returned home, elated.
After a lifetime of drawing cartoons I have fallen in love with writing. I have fallen out of love with cartooning. After 11, cartoons, plus the tens of thousands of caricatures I have drawn
“It’s the end of a really big era here in Tucson” as David Fitzsimmons retires from his public life of raising “easily a million dollars” for community organizations and charitable causes as an emcee extraordinaire for decades.
So notes his fellow community fundraiser and longtime partner in standup comedy, attorney Elliot Glicksman, who adds: “It’s not only the money he raised. He would speak at every high school class. He would emcee every auction, every event. Roasts. Letting himself be roasted. He does almost all of them without pay. He’s tireless in how much he does.”
Agrees Tom Beal, a now retired writer who was a longtime colleague of Fitzsimmons at the Arizona Daily Star, “He has been such a champion of everyone who asked, for free. He could be making money at these gigs, but that’s just not who David is. He’s not just the funniest man I know, he’s also the kindest.”
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Early this year, Fitz also retired from his storied career — finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; nationally syndicated in about newspapers when that many still existed — as a Star editorial cartoonist and columnist.
And now, at 68, he must take care of himself.
David FitzSimmons is an award-winning free-lance photographer and writer. David photographs and writes for various magazines, including Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, Professional Photographer, and Shutterbug. His + calendar credits include numerous titles by BrownTrout and Barnes & Noble. David's most recent publications include "Animals of Ohio's Ponds and Vernal Pools," "Curious Critters," which has won five national book awards and sold over , copies to-date, "Curious Critter Volume Two," "Curious Critters Marine," "Curious Critters Ohio" (board book), and "Curious Critters Michigan" (board book), as well as audio books for both Curious Critters titles. Forthcoming are Curious Critters board books for Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Texas, as well as "Salamander Dance," all to be released in April One of seven Sigma Pro photographers in North America, David presents seminars and workshops to a wide variety of audiences, from public school, college, and university classes to photography groups and civic organizations. His works have been exhibited at the Roger Tory Peters
A collection of David Fitzsimmons' editorial cartoons for
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Unread
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Tell-alls
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Protecting who
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Uh-oh-lympics
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Your call
My View
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Bezos in space
Daily Fitz Cartoon: The Fourth
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Rain. please
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Just singin' in the rain
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Back to the future
Daily Fitz Cartoon: New state flag
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Saved
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Raisin brains
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Your Lawmakers at work
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Summit
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Critics of Critical Race Theory
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Sinema
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Water
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Rip Van Cicada
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Mirage
Daily Fitz Cartoon: The usual suspects
Daily Fitz Cartoon: UFOs
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Future investment
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Sinema
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Vintage Fitz Memorial Day Cartoon
Daily Fitz Cartoon: Summer prep
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