Thanks to Daily Cartoonist’s Alan Gardner, I’m now aware of the mysterious blogger known as the Bad Cartoonist. Who is Bad Cartoonist you ask? Why, he’s an anonymous editorial cartoonist who uses his blog to critique and mock the various bad to awful editorial cartoons he comes across. Sorta like the Comics Curmudgeon, but for the Opinion page:
Alan Gardner: What is the purpose of your site/Why did you start it up?
Bad Cartoonist: I’m really not sure. I guess I started it because I got pissed off because of all the crap I hear from other cartoonists about how our profession is dying and how someone else is to blame. There are some seriously talented cartoonists working right now. But there’s more detritus than anything else, a quick scan at caglepost.com will show you that. Someone has to say it so I guess it will be me. It’s our fault too. There, I feel better already.
I figured since we spend most of our time pointing out the hypocrisy of others it was about time someone point out our own. Kind of like ‘who watches the watchers’ isn’t it? Except without the superpowers. Or murder, or mass destruction. OK, bad analogy but the point holds true. We spend our time satirizing others so can’t we satirize ourselves?
