{"id":4901,"date":"2011-02-20T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2011-02-20T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:18:30","slug":"updating-the-cartoon-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4901","title":{"rendered":"Updating The Cartoon Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;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. \u00a0 I need to be more punctual about updating the cartoon page here for one thing. \u00a0 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. \u00a0 Since I don&#8217;t do this as my primary occupation, I am an &#8220;associate&#8221; member, not a &#8220;regular&#8221; one. \u00a0 The difference is regular members get to vote in the board elections and post their cartoons in the main cartoon space. \u00a0 I don&#8217;t begrudge them that&#8230;those folks are trying to earn a living in an economy that is very bad for cartoonists of any sort, let alone editorial cartoonists.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no illusions now about ever earning a living by my artwork alone. \u00a0 I&#8217;m just not that competitive a soul for one thing. \u00a0 But also, my cartoons can get brutal. \u00a0 My aim isn&#8217;t merely to provoke&#8230;I have always believed that political cartoons are best when the artist takes a passionate stand for (or against, but mostly for) something. \u00a0 But that&#8217;s not a selling point to newspaper editors in today&#8217;s climate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/political_cartoons\/angelic_troublemakers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/political_cartoons\/another_one.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/political_cartoons\/something_for_all_of_you.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More over at <a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/cartoon.htm\">The Cartoon Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;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. \u00a0 I need to be more punctual about updating the cartoon page here for one thing. \u00a0 OUTLoud will be carrying my cartoons on their page soon, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[133,134,104,55],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-aaec","tag-gay","tag-political-cartoon","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}