Comments on: Mike Luckovich does cartoons for pro-newspaper campaign http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/03/mike-luckovich-does-cartoons-for-pro-newspaper-campaign/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: phil tography http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/03/mike-luckovich-does-cartoons-for-pro-newspaper-campaign/#comment-80248 phil tography Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:22:58 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4121#comment-80248 All three of you are absolutely right. Full stories online are hurting newspaper sales, along with replacing local editorial/political cartoons with syndicated ones. I wish nothing but the best for syndicated artists, but not at the expense of local cartoonists. Maybe like when Chas. Schulz passed away, we could have all cartoonists draw a special cartoon, to be published on a certain date, for every newspaper which still publishes local works. Yes, the editors would have to agree, but aren't we saving their jobs as well ? All three of you are absolutely right. Full stories online are hurting newspaper sales, along with replacing local editorial/political cartoons with syndicated ones. I wish nothing but the best for syndicated artists, but not at the expense of local cartoonists. Maybe like when Chas. Schulz passed away, we could have all cartoonists draw a special cartoon, to be published on a certain date, for every newspaper which still publishes local works.
Yes, the editors would have to agree, but aren’t we saving their jobs as well ?

]]> By: Richard Crowson http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/03/mike-luckovich-does-cartoons-for-pro-newspaper-campaign/#comment-80243 Richard Crowson Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:16:58 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4121#comment-80243 Wow. There's enough irony here to get the wrinkles out of a newspaper executive's 3-piece suit. The executives who are responsible for the laying off of us editorial cartoonists are employing an editorial cartoonist (and I agree that Mike's about the best) to draw attention to the plight of the executives' newspapers. Well, go get 'em, Mike, while you've still got a job! Wow. There’s enough irony here to get the wrinkles out of a newspaper executive’s 3-piece suit. The executives who are responsible for the laying off of us editorial cartoonists are employing an editorial cartoonist (and I agree that Mike’s about the best) to draw attention to the plight of the executives’ newspapers. Well, go get ‘em, Mike, while you’ve still got a job!

]]> By: Stacy Curtis http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/03/mike-luckovich-does-cartoons-for-pro-newspaper-campaign/#comment-80231 Stacy Curtis Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:11:08 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4121#comment-80231 And this campaign is called "Newspaper Executives Pissing in the Wind." When will newspaper executives acknowledge that their FIRST PRIORITY should be to STOP putting their newspaper content online for FREE? Yes, newspapers serve a purpose, but that purpose isn't worth crap if no one is buying the newspaper, providing salaries for folks like editorial cartoonists and keeping them in business. And this campaign is called “Newspaper Executives Pissing in the Wind.”

When will newspaper executives acknowledge that their FIRST PRIORITY should be to STOP putting their newspaper content online for FREE?

Yes, newspapers serve a purpose, but that purpose isn’t worth crap if no one is buying the newspaper, providing salaries for folks like editorial cartoonists and keeping them in business.

]]> By: Ted Mallory http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/03/mike-luckovich-does-cartoons-for-pro-newspaper-campaign/#comment-80215 Ted Mallory Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:23:06 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4121#comment-80215 Totally appropriate because Luckovich is just about the best newspaper editorial cartoonist working today. Maybe we need to draw pictures for editors and publishers to spell out why it's a bone headed idea to eliminate editorial cartoonists from their staffs! Totally appropriate because Luckovich is just about the best newspaper editorial cartoonist working today. Maybe we need to draw pictures for editors and publishers to spell out why it’s a bone headed idea to eliminate editorial cartoonists from their staffs!

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