Mike Lynch has some advice for aspiring cartoonists. More specifically, gag cartoonists:
“Can anyone make a living as a gag cartoonist?” I was asked recently.
Not anyone, only those who are driven and maybe, just maybe, a bit mad … as a hatter.
And not if you think that the only gag cartoon market is The New Yorker. And not if you think that magazines in general are the only way to go.
There are a lot more markets. I was chatting with veteran gag cartoonist Bob Vojtko and we were pulling some magazines off the racks at a grocery store. He was showing me some of the mags he was in. Bob was in a lot, as usual! I asked him how many publications he had been in, all together, in his career, and he said something like many dozen that I know about — and then there are hundreds of other “hidden markets.” And he did a little Groucho Marx eyebrow wiggle to let me know HE wasn’t telling ME what those markets were!
Lots more in the link, as they say.
