On Cartooning In The 21st Century
A lot of the value of this essay would seem to me specific to the British comics market. Plus I would disagree with some of the off-hand criticisms -- I feel a well-done editorial cartoon can be just as valuable as a graphic novel on the same subject matter. Still, the sense that media industries such as comics do not promote a realistic self-image in terms of the rewards involved seems to me a dead-on remark. I know that there are still many, many cartoonists and especially wannabe cartoonists that have an extremely distorted view of what certain rewards are actually like, such as believing that a collection of a comic strip will mean the creator is making Jim Davis money now. We could save a lot of people a lot of grief by being more forthright about this subject.
