Editorial Cartoonists Update: Miller’s Suggestion and Anderson’s Numbers

Editorial cartoonist and syndicated panel/strip cartoonist Wiley Miller, a generally outspoken advocate on various industry causes and issues, suggests one potential solution to shrinking staff positions for comics that one imagines most people don't want to hear -- those with staff jobs may want to stop syndicating, making the field less of an extreme buyer's market and making the on-staff cartoonist more valuable for a sizeable paper who can no longer pick and choose from those at major publications.

In another Editor & Publisher news piece, readers get the rare, explict description of an editorial cartoonist's client list in a story about how many papers Nick Anderson picked up after winning a Pulitzer. Anderson went from 48 to 70 clients, which the article indicates is pretty remarkable in that crowded field. Now, I have no idea what the pay's like for editorial cartoonists, or how that might be mitigated by days of the week a cartoon is made available and so on. But, if it's anything close to newspaper panel/strip syndication, that client list by itself would only afford the full-time Kentucky paper employee a very modest living.
 
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