Drawing from experience: A cartoonist’s-eye view from inside the Republican convention

by Joe Dworetzky, Bay City News July 15, 2024July 16, 2024

Bay City News reporter and cartoonist Joe Dworetzky is covering this week's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. (Joe Dworetzky/Bay City News)

I BOARDED THE plane to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee with a hard nugget of dread in my stomach.

I was not squeamish about political antagonism. As a Legal Affairs reporter for Bay City News and a sometime political cartoonist, political battles gave me much of the raw material I worked with. I had covered the RNC in Cleveland in 2016 when Donald Trump was nominated and six months later I was in the front rows of press seating at the Capitol when he was sworn in and delivered the American Carnage speech.

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Joe Dworetzky, Bay City News

Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.

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