Alan Gardner Decries Prevalency of Editorial Cartoonist Victimhood Pose

At Daily Cartoonist, Alan Gardner speaks to the detrimental effects of casting editorial cartooning as a profession in decline. I sort of agree with Gardner that's probably not the wisest way to play it if you're in the profession. However, since I'm not, I'm happy to point it out whenever it's relevant.

A couple of side issues get floated, too. The reason why it's talked about more now than it as when the profession started its decline is because the way media has developed encourages such talk and, like all things in decline such as, oh, the air in a room, it's more worrisome at a point of further decline than it is at a point in initial decline. Three factors you can point to that make it a bigger issue now are 1) the perception that editorial cartooning jobs are in danger has now gone so far as to change the orientation of the profession to embrace animation work, 2) the complaints against editorial cartoonists often include "that person isn't from around here" and it's actually true now, which I think suggests a tipping point in the way people relate to editorial cartoonists, and 3) there is no easy-to-grasp conventional wisdom about who gets let go and who doesn't suggesting less of a trend than a potential category collapse. The other side issue floated is in the comments thread where someone is basically saying, "I'm doing okay; show me this decline." I don't think that musters enough of a serious question to be answered, frankly.

In related news, Tulsa World announces it will be hiring to replace the late Doug Marlette.
 
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