Yup, Trudeau, Oliphant, Marlette, Tinsely, are political cartoonists.

Comic strip creators would include Chester Gould, Jim Davis, Hank Ketchum, and others.

Comic book creators would cover Stan, the Man, Lee, or Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

And, finally, Nina we Nina have a Nina cariciturist, the late, great, Al Hirscfeld.

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The political cartoonist could have the angle of a cartoonist seemingly knowing more than what he reads in the newspapers about a politcal boss--and getting murdered for it. Clues could be in his final cartoon.

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I was always a little mystified as to why they never used a pilot. Closest we got was Johhny Cash. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Good choice I think. What could a story line be? Pilot kills wife and uses his complex flight schedule to claim he was elsewhere? And Columbo's fear of heights could be used well, too.

As a former daily newspaper reporter, I've always felt a police beat reporter would be perfect -- he or she could shadow Columbo, get the tidbits the cops aren't supposed to release, and even manipulate coverage to cover his or her tracks.

A great one!!!