Go, Read: Astor Interviews McGarry



Editor and Publisher's Dave Astor has conducted a long interview with National Cartoonists Society President Steve McGarry. There is so little newspaper strip coverage of this type I'd suggest reading it if it were nothing but reports of what trunks different people wore to the hotel pool during the last Reubens weekend, but McGarry launches into this impressive and incredibly depressing speech about the state of the industry.

"I suspect that the general consensus among the syndicated community is that the trends are pretty disheartening, I'm afraid. There's a genuine sense that many of today's editors view strips as a nuisance. Strips are routinely shrunk and morphed. Rates of pay remain at 1970s levels and some newspaper groups are even trying to whittle those rates down further."

He's even less enthused about prospects for editorial cartoonists. The interview also contains the news nugget that the strip McGarry works on, The Mullets, will soon end.

McGarry does a number of strips, and looks to continue to pursue biography strips with a new feature this spring, which gives me an excuse to run this one of Captain Beefheart.
 
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