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Black Ink Monday

Black Ink Monday, a non-violent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), is a response to the Tribune Company’s recent elimination of editorial cartooning positions at several of its newspapers, as well as a commentary on newspapers everywhere who have lost sight of the value of having a staff editorial cartoonist. The site has 100 cartoons on the subject by 100 different cartoonists. Here’s the press release.

  • Reebot99

    Speaking of editorial cartoonists – if you can stop bowing at the altar of Howard Dean for 3 seconds – these guys are some of the best out there.

    http://www.coxandforkum.com/

  • Reebot99

    Speaking of editorial cartoonists – if you can stop bowing at the altar of Howard Dean for 3 seconds – these guys are some of the best out there.

    http://www.coxandforkum.com/

  • http://www.editoon.com/ tone

    Holy Koko the clown, man that is a real @#$% shame. How many times has an editorial cartoon got your friendly neighborhood cartoonist in trouble. Just a another victim of a Conrad Black like news world. These guys get no respect. They are also victim of the Internet in some ways where new cartoonists pop up each day.

  • http://www.editoon.com tone

    Holy Koko the clown, man that is a real @#$% shame. How many times has an editorial cartoon got your friendly neighborhood cartoonist in trouble. Just a another victim of a Conrad Black like news world. These guys get no respect. They are also victim of the Internet in some ways where new cartoonists pop up each day.

  • http://www.holisticforgeworks.com/ Tacoma Artist

    Like the mighty dinosaur, the days of the newspaper are numbered. I call upon all cartoonists to devote themselves to the internet to further their demise… The internet is humanities’ manifest destiny.

  • http://www.holisticforgeworks.com Tacoma Artist

    Like the mighty dinosaur, the days of the newspaper are numbered. I call upon all cartoonists to devote themselves to the internet to further their demise… The internet is humanities’ manifest destiny.

  • http://stormsillustration.com/ Patricia

    How does drawing cartoons on the Internet further a cartoonist’s demise? It’s the editors and ultimately the corporations who own these newspapers who are putting these editorial cartoonists on the chopping block. The internet is for some the only avenue for free speech and creativity … for now, anyway.

  • http://stormsillustration.com Patricia

    How does drawing cartoons on the Internet further a cartoonist’s demise? It’s the editors and ultimately the corporations who own these newspapers who are putting these editorial cartoonists on the chopping block. The internet is for some the only avenue for free speech and creativity … for now, anyway.

  • http://stormsillustration.com/ Patricia

    Never mind. I mistunderstood what your said.

  • http://stormsillustration.com Patricia

    Never mind. I mistunderstood what your said.

  • Daniel LA Artist

    Taking stabs at cartoonists is something that needs attention because it is an injury to the peoples ego who it offends. They need help. Cartoons are harmless and the only reason that some go after the cartoonist is because their huge egos and points of opion have been damaged.
    It saddens me to think that these thin skinned people have the power to pick on cartoonists that are showing us that we need to laugh at ourselves and to release the problems and pressure of modern day society.
    If we eliminate this we will only be making problem worse. We must remember that there is certain entertainment that keeps us in check. Without it, it will not only eliminate freedom of speech and creativity but it will put us in a place far worse than being offended by a few cartoons that might be hitting a soft spot.
    For those who wish to stop editoral cartoons I say get some thick skin and help from a doctor. If this is being done by the pressure of the Goverment I believe that this should be a story for the front page of the paper letting the people know how the goverment or special interest groups arte trying to dictate how we think and feel about world matters. Do not be afraid of cartoons please. Stand up for the freedom of speech.

  • http://http:icwildlife.tripod.com Daniel LA Artist

    Taking stabs at cartoonists is something that needs attention because it is an injury to the peoples ego who it offends. They need help. Cartoons are harmless and the only reason that some go after the cartoonist is because their huge egos and points of opion have been damaged.
    It saddens me to think that these thin skinned people have the power to pick on cartoonists that are showing us that we need to laugh at ourselves and to release the problems and pressure of modern day society.
    If we eliminate this we will only be making problem worse. We must remember that there is certain entertainment that keeps us in check. Without it, it will not only eliminate freedom of speech and creativity but it will put us in a place far worse than being offended by a few cartoons that might be hitting a soft spot.
    For those who wish to stop editoral cartoons I say get some thick skin and help from a doctor. If this is being done by the pressure of the Goverment I believe that this should be a story for the front page of the paper letting the people know how the goverment or special interest groups arte trying to dictate how we think and feel about world matters. Do not be afraid of cartoons please. Stand up for the freedom of speech.

  • http://www.alexgreen-illustration.co.uk/ Alex Green

    We need more cartoon. The art of the satirical cartoon is alive and well here in the UK. people like Steve Bell in the Guardian are as important to current affairs as the big press photographers. The art of image making is just as real as any photograph which is already a highly edited view of reality. I hope the readership dictates that the staff cartoonist should return.

  • http://www.alexgreen-illustration.co.uk Alex Green

    We need more cartoon. The art of the satirical cartoon is alive and well here in the UK. people like Steve Bell in the Guardian are as important to current affairs as the big press photographers. The art of image making is just as real as any photograph which is already a highly edited view of reality. I hope the readership dictates that the staff cartoonist should return.