One Year Old!
The Fool's been around for one year today without missing a day, my friends. That's fourteen pounds of drawings, countless pencils and pens and several erasers. It's been an interesting time, with some very satisfying and fulfilling milestones, though the anniversary was commemorated yesterday with a rejection letter from Parade Magazine that thanked me gently for my submission but said my work didn't fit with their "editorial needs." Editorial needs? I thoght they were looking for cartoons. Oh well, I ain't giving up, and hopefully neither will the Writers Guild. And by the way, my heartfelt thanks to you loyals.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:02 AM
8 Comments:
I'm sorry to hear about Parade. It's a stupid magazine anyway.
Oh John, That's a great one!!
I think you should shoot for the New Yorker. Parade has gotten dusty over the years...
Glad you're not on strike, John.
Great cartoon for today. When I was younger I always thought that writers just wrote those well honed phrases right out of their head without any required editing. Those signs your strikers carry are a hilarious tribute to all the real work involved in turning out those "well honed phrases".
Cheers, Rico
John C. Great cartoon today. I agree that the signs are a hilarious tribute to writers. Well done!
An impressive amount of work has gone into these cartoons that are slick and well composed with the drawings showing excellent emotions projected into each cartoon.
Congratulations and predict that you will be in the New Yorker in the near future.
Thanks, friends. I'm not disheartened by Parade. I've been reading the new biography of Charles Schulz ("Peanuts") and enjoying the tales of those who rejected his strip in the beginning. The New Yorker is the Mt. Everest for 'toonists, but if I don't make it in, it won't be for lack of trying.
I belong to the American assocation of University Professors which was recognized as a union at my school Oakland university. during my time there we had two strikes only the first of which was necessary. The result of our unionization was a vast improvement in management with some very good faculty getting 20% raises. A long term effect was that the other universities leaned on our administration not to give high raises so we got less visble increases in benefits culminating in 15% od our base salary going into 403b accounts with no contribution fom the faculty. as the IWW used to say "One big union,One big strike" LOL roger
Congratulations on the one year anniversary.
-Andrew
Congratulations again John!
So pleased you didn't join the strike... that could have seriously derailed your 365 day record! :-D
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