If you are trying to say that Daryl’s syndicate has some how single handedly reduced the value of cartoons you are terrible misinformed. Daryl did not lower the value of cartoons, newspaper editors and the other syndicates did.

Daryl’s syndicate is less than 10 years old and the prices and structure of packaging were set long ago by the other older established syndicates like United, Universal, Creators and Copley. Daryl simply followed what the others had set. Where Daryl had a selling advantage was he began to e-mail the cartoons to clients when the others were still snail mailing them.

Newspaper editors are the problem and always have been. Simply put, editors don’t care about comic strips or editorial cartoons. They want to pay the least amount for them as they possibly can. They look at them as nothing more than space filler. If you think you work is viewed by editors as more than that then you are delusional.

Even if by some stretch of the imagination Cagle is right that more people than ever before read editorial cartoons, cartoonists’ pocketbooks aren’t seeing anything from it. Cagle has done a good job at bringing more editorial cartoonists online, but that and the penny ante syndication that’s come with it have only helped to reduce the value of editorial cartoonists.