Go, Read: Rina Piccolo On Being A Syndicated Cartoonist



The prolific strip cartoonist/webcomics maker talks about the joys and less-than-joys of being a syndicated cartoonist. On the one hand, you're totally self-directed; on the other hand, it's relentless. I know a lot of cartoonists are hesitant to talk about this and a lot of fans aren't patient with that particular complaint given that high-end creative jobs are so hard to come by, but I think the drip-drip-drip nature of doing 365 comics a year is a huge difficulty for a lot of cartoonists.

A common complaint Piccolo apparently doesn't have I used to hear all the time that I now wonder if the Internet ameliorates is the loneliness aspect of that particular creative endeavor, that you're performing for your life -- your life in syndication -- but you really don't know if the audience has reacted until you get the box office receipts/list of papers buying your stuff about six weeks later. That also goes away a bit when you build enough of a client list you can count on it month to month, but those first couple dozen months that's just a really odd, really specific pressure. It's hard to correct course midstream when you can't hear anyone clapping or booing.
 
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