Ted Rall- Political Cartooning is Almost Worth Dying For
An event like yesterday’s slaughter of at least 10 staff members, including four political cartoonists, and two policemen, at the office of Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, elicits so many responses that it’s hard to sort them out.
If you have a personal connection, that comes first.
I do.
I met a group of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, including one of the victims, a few years ago at the annual cartoon Festival in Angoulême, France, the biggest gathering of cartoonists and their fans in the world. They had sought me out, partly as fans of my work — for whatever reason, my stuff seems to travel well overseas — and because I was an American cartoonist who speaks French. We did what cartoonists do: we got drunk, complained about our editors, exchanged trade secrets including pay rates.
If I lived in France, that’s where I’d want to work.
My French counterparts struck me as more self-confident and cockier than the average cartoonist. Unlike at the older, venerable Le Canard Enchainée, cartoons are the centerpiece of Charlie Hebdo, not prose. The paper has suffered financial troubles over the years, yet somehow the French continued to keep it afloat because they love comics.
much more (even if you dislike/hate Rall's work this is worth reading)
https://medium.com/the-nib/political-cartooning-is-almost-worth-dying-for-5fb3a0e79370
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Thank you for the heads-up on Ted Rall, n2doc. They are the reason the pen is mightier.
http://www.eatmousies.com/
M.K. Brown, his widow, is great people (don't know her personally, just through her work):
http://www.benway.com/mkbrown/
