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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
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.
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.
If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.
I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.
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.
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.
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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.