The Magic Whistle shows us some of Jack Davis' rejected newspaper strips. After doing the rounds with the syndicates, the civil war-ori...

Here are some cartoons that have come close to selling. All of these cartoons were held by an editor for purchase for a major publication, b...

My friend and fellow gag cartoonist Roy Delgado writes about getting rejected at his Roy Delgado Blog. Now, Roy, as you probably know, has s...

This is not a Christmas card for everyone. Heck, it's not even a NICE Christmas card. This is for cartoonists. And these are all true th...

The Voice of America 's reporter Paige Kollock interviews comic book artist Robert Walker, who draws O-MEN. The O-MEN is a superhero te...

Above: a screen capture of J.K. Rowling from her Harvard commencement speech. Last month. J.K. Rowling gave a graduation speech at Harvard. ...

Here at the Mike Lynch Cartoons blog, I try to be positive about cartooning -- particularly magazine cartooning. I've written about how ...

New Yorker cartoonist, and editor of not just one, but two REJECTION COLLECTION books, Matthew Diffee is interviewed for Print Magazine b...

Above: my cartoon "How the hell am I gong to spin this? " from the November 2007 issue of HBR. There comes a time when a little c...

"Let me get this straight: you do a blog about rejection? All about rejection? And people read it?" I'm paraphrasing what a re...

Murray the Bird was a comic strip proposal I drew up 7 years ago. I liked it. It was a fun strip to write. I remember drawing it after leavi...

Quitting my day job -- which was years back now -- required a leap of faith. I didn't know a soul in the pro cartoonists "industry...

Yes, well, it's rather mean, but shopping is all part of a woman's world. I guess that's why Woman's World purchased the ab...

The nice thing about seeing a cartoon of mine in the Funny Times is that so many of my cartoonist friends are in it as well: Tony Murphy...

I wrote about how often a cartoon of mine was rejected 20 times before it sold on March 8th. And I used a metaphoric graphic for it: a phot...

It's bad enough when the mailman comes by and there are a couple of envelopes full of rejected cartoons. But at least I'm experienci...

A magazine cartoonist, like me, does his or her work on spec. When I draw a cartoon, I don't know if it will sell or not. All I know is ...