Chuck asay biography

COLORADO SPRINGS —  A new exhibit put on by the Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is the kind that will and is intended to spark discussion.

It is a selection of the works by political cartoonist Chuck Asay who retired after decades with the Colorado Springs Gazette and doing syndicated political cartoons.

“My cartoons appeared in probably 80 -100 papers or so around the country,” said Asay.

He started drawing cartoons as a teen to get laughs from friends.

Doing it for free got his foot in the political cartooning door at a paper in Taos, New Mexico.

That lead to a job at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper, and then the Colorado Springs Gazette from 1986 to 2007.

He retired in 2013 from his syndicated work.

“I think that the ideas of cartoons and politics mesh, because cartoons are supposed to be funny, and politics is a very serious thing,” said Asay

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