The Round-up
Kevin Siers, editorial cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer, has found his name on a list of hostiles kept by the National Rifle Association. Read Siers’ response here. Mike Lynch tells an amusing story – through the medium of cartoons, naturally – about his early attempts to sell gags to that most notoriously esoteric of markets, […]
Cartoonist refuses to grin and bear it
Matthew Inman, the cartoonist behind popular US website The Oatmeal, wrote about a website that was stealing his images a year ago. His blog post about FunnyJunk.com received a response and the subsequent removal of Inman’s images was welcomed, even though not all of them were taken down. Eventually, Inman decided it wasn’t worth the energy to continue to […]
Cartoonist has a go at cartoonists
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis has used his newspaper comic strip Pearls Before Swine to take a very funny swipe at cartoonists who peddle what he sees as hackneyed and dated gags about subjects such as golf, henpecked husbands and “hot secretaries”. Bloghorn says, feel free to voice your objections to either side of the argument in […]
It's all about presentation
It’s something all cartoonists dread: you open up a magazine and see one of your precious works in print but they have done something to it. It may be a changed caption, an amended drawing, the cartoon has been printed too small … whatever, it’s a bit annoying. Here, cartoonist and blogger Mike Lynch takes […]
Paying for cartoon content
American cartoonist Mike Lynch tells it like it is with a blog post that states its point clearly in its title: If You Give Away Your Cartoons for Free, You Won’t Make a Living as a Cartoonist “It’s wrong if a publication (print or web) thinks they can just grab a cartoon for free content […]