Updating The Cartoon Page
Now that I’m offically a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists my bi-weekly cartoon chores for Baltimore OUTLoud will be taking on some additional tasks. I need to be more punctual about updating the cartoon page here for one thing. OUTLoud will be carrying my cartoons on their page soon, and I can now create a small space of my own on the AAEC web site. Since I don’t do this as my primary occupation, I am an “associate” member, not a “regular” one. The difference is regular members get to vote in the board elections and post their cartoons in the main cartoon space. I don’t begrudge them that…those folks are trying to earn a living in an economy that is very bad for cartoonists of any sort, let alone editorial cartoonists.
I’ve no illusions now about ever earning a living by my artwork alone. I’m just not that competitive a soul for one thing. But also, my cartoons can get brutal. My aim isn’t merely to provoke…I have always believed that political cartoons are best when the artist takes a passionate stand for (or against, but mostly for) something. But that’s not a selling point to newspaper editors in today’s climate…
More over at The Cartoon Page.
February 21st, 2011 at 4:25 am
Only one comment: wasn’t Bayard Rustin black? (And if he wasn’t, who’s the black guy with MLK on the front of “Time On Two Crosses”?) That cartoon makes him look like the only white guy there.
February 21st, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Well…I was hoping to make him a bit spectral. That’s his spirit walking along with the two angelic troublemakers.
Oh well…
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