Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon
A Trumpian intervention, Blitt-style. Barry Blitt has contributed to The New Yorker since 1992. Visit his website here.
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Where Else Are They Now?
Looking at a Weekly Humorist post this morning it occurred to me I was seeing a good number of New Yorker cartoonists represented. With the stable of cartoonists at The New Yorker on the verge of a record-setting year, population-wise (once a stable of approximately 40 regular cartoonists, there are now, according to the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, about 100) the number of cartoons bought per week remains at the mid-teen level (slightly more or slightly less).
Let’s just play with made-up numbers for a moment to give you an idea of the odds these days for those submitting their work. Let’s just say each of those 100 cartoonists submits 10 cartoon ideas a week. That’s 1000 cartoons. 1000 cartoons vying for the 15 (or so) weekly golden tickets (i.e., the bought cartoon, or in New Yorker cartoonist parlance, the O.K.). That leaves approximately 985 rejected cartoons with almost no place to go. And remember: that’s just one week’s worth of rejected work. Most cartoonists send in a “batch” weekly, every week of the year there is an art meeting.
Supply has always well exceeded demand at The New Yorker, but with a more than doubled regular supply, things become more complicated for those submitting. As has been the case for decades, cartoonists sell to other print magazines that are cartoon-friendly, but those avenues are few, as are the number of cartoonists used per issue (see Playboy, and Esquire). There are at least three places where one can find a healthy population of work by New Yorker artists. A semi-highly unscientific survey indicates that most New Yorker cartoonists (who flock anywhere) flock to these publications.
The current issue includes these New Yorker artists: Darrin Bell, Harry Bliss, J.C. Duffy, Martha Gradisher, Peter Kuper, Mary Lawton, Carol Lay, P.S. Mueller, Drew Panckeri, Rina Piccolo, Ward Sutton, Tom Tomorrow, Chris Weyant, and Shannon Wheeler.
Issue #10) includes these New Yorker artists: George Booth, M.K. Brown, John Cuneo, Ivan Ehlers, Emily Flake, Drew Friedman, Sam Gross, Lars Kenseth, Ken Krimstein, Peter Kuper, Sara Lautman, Jeremy Nguyen, Rich Sparks, Tom Toro, and the late Charles Barsotti.
Scroll down and you’ll find work by these New Yorker artists: Ellis Rosen, Peter Kuper, Bob Eckstein, Ivan Ehlers, Drew Panckeri, Evan Lian, Joseph Dottino, Lars Kenseth, Jason Chatfield, Rich Sparks, Ali Soloman, Eugenia Viti, Pat Byrnes, J.C. Duffy, and David Ostow (among others).
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Today’s Daily Shoutist: Julia Wertz
“Conversations With Ma: Prenatal Vitamins And Owl Pellets”
Julia Wertz has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2015.