Crain’s Chicago Business editorial cartoonist says goodbye

Roger Schillerstrom

Roger Schillerstrom‘s first cartoon appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business in 1982. Seven years later, Crain Communications elevated him to full-time staff cartoonist. He is the only person to hold that position in the parent company’s 100-year history. Though Schillerstrom will continue working as a freelance cartoonist, this is his last cartoon for Crain’s.

Over his 34-year tenure with Crain Communications, Schillerstrom has lacerated and lampooned business and political figures in seven of the publishing company’s titles: Business Insurance, Modern Healthcare, Pensions & Investments, Modern Physician, BtoB and Investment News, in addition to Crain’s Chicago Business.

A native of Des Moines and a longtime resident of Chicago’s west suburbs, Schillerstrom received nine Peter Lisagor Awards for editorial cartooning from the Chicago Headline Club, most recently in 2013.

To see more of his cartoons, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.