It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.
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.
I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.
Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.
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.
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
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.
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
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