I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.
With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest.
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.
Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.