Comments on: Sarah Palin is a five-letter word. http://thecartoons.net/2008/10/25/not-times-cartoon-of-the-week-again/ New Yorker cartoons for the upperclass AND the masses. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:10:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Donna Barstow http://thecartoons.net/2008/10/25/not-times-cartoon-of-the-week-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1370 Donna Barstow Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:28:21 +0000 http://thecartoons.net/?p=194#comment-1370 Since this cartoon isn't in a newspaper, it's on my cartoon blog, not everyone would think politics. Political cartoons have MUCH fewer readers than regular comics - trot on over to Gocomics to see the difference in subscriptions and the asinine comments on the newspaper comics there. And some people never get anything, ESPECIALLY political cartoons. I don't think I explain the joke most of the time on this blog - I explain why I did it. People who are interested in the cartooning process like that. Since this cartoon isn’t in a newspaper, it’s on my cartoon blog, not everyone would think politics. Political cartoons have MUCH fewer readers than regular comics – trot on over to Gocomics to see the difference in subscriptions and the asinine comments on the newspaper comics there.

And some people never get anything, ESPECIALLY political cartoons. I don’t think I explain the joke most of the time on this blog – I explain why I did it. People who are interested in the cartooning process like that.

]]> By: Chris http://thecartoons.net/2008/10/25/not-times-cartoon-of-the-week-again/comment-page-1/#comment-1366 Chris Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:27:23 +0000 http://thecartoons.net/?p=194#comment-1366 Donna, may I be so bold as to ask why you always feel the need to explain your cartoons on this blog? You always seem to doubt that your readers "get it." Usually I would say that you're underestimating your audience's ability...but in this case, I actually think you're explaining them because you can see they don't really make much sense on their own. But explaining them only highlights this flaw. I'm going to be bold again, and make a very basic recommendation: If you don't think the cartoon will be understood on it's own, don't publish it. Donna, may I be so bold as to ask why you always feel the need to explain your cartoons on this blog? You always seem to doubt that your readers “get it.” Usually I would say that you’re underestimating your audience’s ability…but in this case, I actually think you’re explaining them because you can see they don’t really make much sense on their own. But explaining them only highlights this flaw. I’m going to be bold again, and make a very basic recommendation: If you don’t think the cartoon will be understood on it’s own, don’t publish it.

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