Category: In the Biz

Dec 21 2008

Ted Rall gives Time Magazine what for.

OOh, great dustup on Time Magazine's list of Best Editorial Cartoons of 2008! You'll have to decide for yourself if they made the right decision, and if these cartoons are the BEST - I started to really study editorial cartoons just this year, and they don't seem great to me, but I am not one to ...

Dec 12 2008

A plethora of editors speak their minds.

This week from my editors: One editor was very apologetic to say that her paper was cutting back, and so they couldn't use my cartoon for a while. (However, since I'm the only cartoon in there, and we have a really good rapport, I think she'll be back.) One editor never let me know about the batch ...

Nov 11 2008

How many minority and women cartoonists are in the LA Times?

Blondie comic book cover

I wrote the post below last February in my Griffith Park Blog. It's a popular post, so I thought cartoon people would like to take a look at it, too. I just couldn't believe this article in the LA Times and many other papers today. But for one day.  this Sunday, nearly a dozen cartoonists of color ...

Oct 21 2008

How to use pop culture to influence your editor.

One might consider this an example of poor boundaries on my end, or simply showing my hand, but I'm going to divulge a little trick that cartoonists or writers might want to use when working with an editor. Act as if paying that month's rent isn't all that. Have fun in spite of the tanking stock ...

Oct 01 2008

Break up cartoon with alimony.

Divorce cartoon

"I just told him to pack his bags, get out, and send me large checks." Of course, this is a New Yorker cartoon, or SHOULD be a New Yorker one. Tell it to Mankoff. This is for the Illustration Friday topic of PACKED. I guess divorce isn't very funny, is it? Probably why I don't have many ...

Aug 26 2008

I lost a big sale today.

What do Women Want Book

I talked in the post below about re-using cartoons. It's like a kiss, really. You don't call a second kiss, "re-using it", do you? A good kiss is just as sweet the second time around. But a magazine editor today doesn't think that way, I guess. He bought it, I redrew it, and submitted an invoice ...

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