http://www.chewingpencils.com/2006/10/31/becoming-an-editorial-cartoonist/ Helping to turn a drawing hobby into a cartooning profession Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:56:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.chewingpencils.com/2006/10/31/becoming-an-editorial-cartoonist/#comment-285 Matt Glover Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:33:41 +0000 http://www.chewingpencils.com/2006/10/31/becoming-an-editorial-cartoonist/#comment-285 Good advice - thanks Frank. Good advice - thanks Frank.

]]> http://www.chewingpencils.com/2006/10/31/becoming-an-editorial-cartoonist/#comment-282 Frank Dutton Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:56:12 +0000 http://www.chewingpencils.com/2006/10/31/becoming-an-editorial-cartoonist/#comment-282 I've been doing editorial cartoons for several weekly newspapers (5 I believe) in my area. If I could make one point about editorial/political cartooning... it's "passion". You have to have passion about the subject matter. You have to have strong convictions about your selected topics. If you don't... the cartoon will not work for anybody... I always feel like if it works for me, it will work for somebody else. So far so good I’ve been doing editorial cartoons for several weekly newspapers (5 I believe) in my area. If I could make one point about editorial/political cartooning… it’s “passion”. You have to have passion about the subject matter. You have to have strong convictions about your selected topics. If you don’t… the cartoon will not work for anybody… I always feel like if it works for me, it will work for somebody else. So far so good

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