Daryl Cagle, who runs the great Cartoon Web Log site, spent part of his early career in Honolulu. Much of his time there was on the rivalry between the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and Honolulu Advertiser.

Now that the two have merged, he looks back on the drawings he did about their newspaper battle and past rumors of sales and mergers.

“Last week The Honolulu Star-Bulletin gobbled up The Honolulu Advertiser, making Honolulu a one-daily-newspaper-town,” Cagle writes. “I would have never guessed that things could end up this way. Ten to fifteen years ago, when I was a local cartoonist in Hawaii, this would have seemed to be the most unlikely outcome of a newspaper war that kept me busy drawing scores of cartoons.”

See his gallery HERE.