Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who had worked there since 2008, resigned Friday after her work showing Jeff Bezos kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump was ditched.

Ms. Telnaes’ draft of the cartoon depicted Mr. Bezos, owner of the Post and Amazon, along with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and Mickey Mouse kneeling, bowing and offering Mr. Trump bags of money.

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now,” Ms. Telnaes wrote on her Substack blog Open Windows.

She added that “my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. …  I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, ‘Democracy dies in darkness,’” referencing the slogan the Post adopted in 2017 following Mr. Trump’s first inauguration.

Post opinion editor David Shipley said in a statement that “not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force. My decision was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”

The Post and Los Angeles Times saw resignations last year after both papers declined to endorse either presidential candidate in the election.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.