Salon is now an archive.
New site here
This site's archives
24 February 2009 at 10:59:51 AM
salon
Saw this via Derfcity, which is one of my favorite cartoons to read and which I see in Funny Times. The newspaper industry overall, both the daily and weekly "alternative" press, is in a state of total panic right now. 2008 was the worst year I've ever had, with desperate editors cutting cartoons right and left. Dailies, for all the suicidal moves they have made, at least aren't axing cartoons. They run wretched ones, to be sure, but they recognize how vital comics are. I believe Weeklies should be ADDING features and content, especially cartoons, which are both popular and inexpensive. Instead the strategy seems to be "let's give our readers LESS to read!" Yeah. Wonder how that will work out?
The only hope here is to write these papers and express your disappointment with this decision. You need to let them know that you like and want cartoons, not just mine, in your paper. If you don't do this, you can bid goodbye to your favorite comics.
The VVM papers I was running in are: Dallas Observer, New Times Ft. Lauderdale, Houston Press, Pitch Weekly, Miami New Times and St. Louis Riverfront Times. Below are links to each paper's letter-to-the-editor form. If you like my cartoon, if you like cartoons period, I urge you to write and let them know it. This is it, folks. If you don't speak up now, you'll have to get your laughs from crappy Youtube videos created by pimply high-school geeks.
Click the link for the list.
Permalink
Views: 2612
Latest Blog Post by salon -Video- Somervell County Commissioners Court Special Sessions (2) Dec 23 2019
| |
Somervell County Salon Blog is now an archive site. Commenting
not enabled.
|
Click Here
for Main Page
Guest
Today Is
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Latest Posts
More Blog
Headlines
|
|