Art directors often oversee single sections of the newspaper, deciding what art the section needs and how it should look before assigning graphics editors and page designers to produce it. Graphics editors assign work to the artists, track their productivity and manage the art department's work flow to meet multiple deadlines. Graphic artists use computers and other tools to create maps, art, graphs and other illustrations that make the newspaper come alive and help people read it quickly and easily. Illustrators draw using various techniques and instruments. They are most often used in the feature sections of the paper.
Editorial cartoonists produce one of the newspaper's best-read visual elements.
Most papers have room for only one in-house cartoonist. Those that draw for the comics pages usually do not work for any single newspaper but are widely published through syndication. Two famous names are Garry Trudeau and Herb Block. All rights reserved.