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Drawing The News Ain't Easy
When The New York Times sent an e-mail to editorial cartoonists on Monday announcing that “The Sunday Review section is bringing back editorial cartoons!,” several recipients didn’t share the paper’s enthusiasm. The e-mail requested that work be “original (not syndicated)” and be submitted on spec; one cartoon will be selected each week and published for a payment of $250.
Romenesko published a response from the St. Louis Post Dispatch’s cartoonist, R.J. Matson, who wrote:
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Besides the small minority of cartoonists with staff jobs, most make their living from a combination of syndication and independent contracts. Aspiring cartoonists are often compensated with “exposure,” and some outlets have attempted to “pay” professionals similarly. <Ted> Rall got an e-mail recently from The Huffington Post letting him know that they wanted to include one of his cartoons in a “top political cartoons” slideshow. “I replied, ‘Great, how much do you pay,’ and they didn’t answer,” says Rall. He said alternative weeklies have attempted similar “exposure” exchanges, which he’s refused, because “those are the paying venues. If they’re not paying, there is no future in this.”
Full article: http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/drawing_the_news_aint_easy.php
Romenesko published a response from the St. Louis Post Dispatch’s cartoonist, R.J. Matson, who wrote:
If the Times expects to be choosing from a batch of unpublished, finished cartoons each Friday, I suggest the Times has just insulted every professional cartoonist who has opened this email.
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Besides the small minority of cartoonists with staff jobs, most make their living from a combination of syndication and independent contracts. Aspiring cartoonists are often compensated with “exposure,” and some outlets have attempted to “pay” professionals similarly. <Ted> Rall got an e-mail recently from The Huffington Post letting him know that they wanted to include one of his cartoons in a “top political cartoons” slideshow. “I replied, ‘Great, how much do you pay,’ and they didn’t answer,” says Rall. He said alternative weeklies have attempted similar “exposure” exchanges, which he’s refused, because “those are the paying venues. If they’re not paying, there is no future in this.”
Full article: http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/drawing_the_news_aint_easy.php