Engraved portrait of Hector Rentier

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Hector Rentier

Main Street Independent's editorial cartoonist — a Pittsburgh newspaperman who taught himself the old cross-hatch lineages (Nast, Daumier, Herblock) across forty years of staff work, alt-weeklies, union newsletters, and housing-rights campaigns. His brother went from a laid-off mill job to talk radio blaming everyone but the banks and bosses who did it, and Hector draws for that reader — the captured, not the choir. The work is angry, never bitter, and it has tooth.