Robert is right -- the editors don't see them. They're put on a page by someone in the backshop, along with Ann Landers and the Jumble. It's a page the newsroom doesn't have to deal with. Now, a bright backshop person might have caught this -- they've saved the editorial bacon more than once. But the page might have been done a few days earlier, at a point when the comic didn't seem important.
I'll be doing some "how to cartoon" classes for kids
Hourly Comic Day
Hourly Comic Day has been going on, once a year, for a while. Cartoonists draw, hour by hour, true stories about what happened that day.
The Great Ham Caper
Cartoon Invoices: How To Invoice
I've gotten a couple of emails asking how to invoice, what exactly IS this invoice that thee buyer has asked me for, etc. So, let's take a chapter from the ol' MIKE LYNCH COLLEGE OF CARTOON KNOWLEDGE and talk about invoicing: how to do it, etc. Here goes.
My Article in The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain "The Jester"
The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain, "the UK's largest and oldest cartoonists' organisation," has published an article in its Jester magazine that I wrote about The New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno.
Clients worldwide. Jack Davis Award winner. I write the popular Mike Lynch Cartoons blog on cartoon biz/art. National Cartoonists Society member. New England College Adjunct. Need cartoons and illustrations? Contact: mike@mikelynchcartoons dot com
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Holy cow, I'll say. Somebody's asleep at the switch!
I'm pretty sure that newspaper editors never actually read their own comics. They just look on them as space fillers with squiggly lines in them.
It's enough to make me long for some yellow journalism...
Robert is right -- the editors don't see them. They're put on a page by someone in the backshop, along with Ann Landers and the Jumble. It's a page the newsroom doesn't have to deal with. Now, a bright backshop person might have caught this -- they've saved the editorial bacon more than once. But the page might have been done a few days earlier, at a point when the comic didn't seem important.
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