Missed It: Long New Statesman Article On Newspaper Cartooning

For some reason, I didn't see this long Helen Lewis article on cartooning for newspaper and similar publications until it was posted on a couple of the high-end political blogs. I think it's a fairly good survey of the issues facing that particular kind of expression, as long as you keep in mind that she's working out of the context provided by UK cartooning rather than US.

As for the general issues raised, I think there's a lot to be said for the value of editorial cartooning moving forward, I really do. I also think there are some hard truths that need to be discussed about what that's going to entail and how many people are going to be able to slip into which models at which publications. I think it's as much a mistake to assume that newspaper and newsmagazine cartooning will look like it did in the '40s through '70s as it's been to more generally assume that every other job at such publications wasn't going to change much given the alteration in those publications' missions at an almost quantum level.
 
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