Village Voice To Pay Comics Issue Cartoonists That's nice. It can be very difficult the way that modern media is set up to move another direction because nearly every move made comes with its own set of built-in arguments -- to change your mind you not only after to go against the reality of your decision but the weight of what's been said in its defense. So good on Tony Ortega; I hope it's beer money this weekend for some of the cartoonists involved, and I hope it sets everyone thinking about the assumed and sometimes arbitrarily applied wisdom of free. I also hope that in the future they pay from the beginning, so you can get all those good cartoonists who passed on the "exposure" deal.
