Ohman Opines
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“The canaries in the coal mine are not dead yet, but they’re twitching on the ground.”
Jack Ohman, being an editorial cartoonist and columnist, has opinions which he expresses in a 45 minute interview with Rich Ehisen and Tim Foster posted at the Capitol Weekly Podcast today.
Prompted by the interviewers Jack touches on a variety of topics mostly related to his chosen profession:
6:47 Jack Ohman
7:46 Origin story
9:23 Collapse of the afternoon papers
11:53 Substack
{Income is] almost as good on Substack as it was in the good ol’ days when it was only necessary to send drawings in to the syndicates. Though the constant need for promotion is tiring.
14:04 Political cartooning vs. comic strips
In the mid-1990s Ohman’s Mixed Media was appearing in 175 newspapers earning Jack $70,000/year.
15:30 “I never really wanted to be a cartoonist, I wanted to be governor of Minnesota”
16:00 Kate Brown
18:27 Youngest syndicated cartoonist
Jack Ohman was always a political creature.
23:46 Are we in a new Yellow Journalism era?
26:58 “In some ways we’re fighting the same battles of the Civil War”
33:27 The Death of Scott Adams
Asked if he had opinions about Scott Adams Jack responded, “Oh, I have thoughts.”
36: 39 The Bacchi Decision
40:21 Where is cartooning right now?
“Cartoons seem to be radioactive to the mainstream press.”
48:46 Thomas Nast
Jack Ohman on, at 65, being on the younger side of the average age of editoonists:
“No one’s coming in … no one’s hiring.”
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