The two biggest issues facing a cartoonist today are finding an audience and making a living. It’s hard to find either in today’s marketplace. In every other industry, the way to seperate your business from your competitors 1 is through marketing. And cartoonists are...
Speed. It seems like that’s all I’ve been thinking about lately. In the early days of the web, the Internet was slow. If you’re old enough to remember, the web moved through the phone lines. They were never designed to send much data. Just the electronic...
Walt Kelly debuted his comic strip POGO in the pages of the New York Star on October 4, 1948. The strip ran for the rest of the Star’s publication, which ended on January 28, 1949. But POGO returned, this time in syndication, on May 16, 1949. The early syndicated POGO...