“Shucks”. Awesome.

Sorry if I came a little gruff. Wasn’t my intention to chide what you’ve done with Sheldon. You’re a brilliant businessman and what you’ve achieved in a year should be commended.

The whole embracing of the web as a sole means of income just isn’t my cup of tea, is all.

Good luck with Sheldon.

Cheers,

Corey

So many blogs and commentaries on comic strips take on the feel of an Irish wake during the potato famine. A “Who died this week?” sort of feel… as one paper after another lays off hundreds in a go, shrinks page counts, or folds up completely.

But cartooning survived the death Hogarth and Gilray’s personally-sold subscriptions in the 18th century, it survived the death of Britain’s Punch, it survived the death of the Saturday Evening Post, and it will survive the death of newspapers. The *mediums* change, but the artform of cartooning goes on and on, is what I’m saying.

And you’re right: We’re still in a liminal state between mediums. There’s no reason to say one can’t make a living in both print and online cartooning. Rich Stevens is a perfect example of that. I’m just saying the death of newsprint doesn’t equate to the death of comics or professional careers in comics. My mortgage payments tell me otherwise.

There’s still some success to be had by straddling both print and the web, me thinks.

It’s such a shame to see, though, that the only counter-balancing good news of two major newspaper groups cutting hundreds of jobs and a three Scripps papers folding is “…but Salt Lake launched a small, free afternoon tabloid”.

I would despair of it, if I wasn’t making a comfortable living working solely online. Though the old gray mares are dying, there is light at the end of the tunnel.