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Wednesday 28th March 2007

A Cartoonist Writes…

 

IS CARTOONING VIEWED as a ‘folk art’ along with macramé, pottery and morris dancing?

As a cartoonist I am often asked, “Why don’t you bugger off?” This is usually from prospective clients.

One receives the impression that cartoons are expected to be free, or at least, cheap.

The rejection slip has gone down in folklore as a euphemism for the above treatment but is used mostly in connection with unsolicited single frame joke cartoons. Jokes and cartoons ABOUT rejection slips pour effusively from the wounded souls of The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain. Thus is humour the product of pain and suffering. READ MORE…

Friday 23rd March 2007McCartney Says ‘Toucan play at this game!’