{"id":248,"date":"2003-07-03T03:11:55","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/03\/wednesday-is-no-longer-cartoon-day\/"},"modified":"2003-07-03T03:11:55","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T11:11:55","slug":"wednesday-is-no-longer-cartoon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday is no longer cartoon day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two bits of news from my drawing board. First of all, my new page of Dicebox <\/i>(filling in for Jenn Manley Lee <\/a>while she takes a much-deserved break) is up. You can read it here <\/a>for the next six days, until it’s replaced by my fifth (and final) Dicebox <\/i>page.<\/p>\n

Second, I’ve decided to quit doing the weekly political cartoon.<\/p>\n

I don’t mind that doing a weekly political cartoon hasn’t been terribly rewarding, financially. But lately it hasn’t been all that rewarding from a creative point of view, either. Putting it bluntly, I’m in a rut. It’s a comfortable rut – a rut in which I’ve produced some work I think is pretty darn good – but a rut, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

I’m certainly not going to quit cartooning – but I want to concentrate on projects that are either more rewarding artistically, or financially, or (perhaps someday) both.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I haven’t abandoned political cartooning entirely. Dollars and Sense <\/i>magazine <\/a>has just (after a three-issue tryout) given me a permanent slot in their pages, illustrating their “Short Run” feature with a new political cartoon every issue. I’m very excited and proud to join the D&S<\/i> staff. Plus I may still do the occasional political cartoon just for the fun of it.<\/p>\n

(There’s actually another magazine I just began what I hope will be a long-term association with, which I’m very excited about, but it’s too early to talk about it in public.)<\/p>\n

But political cartoons will not be my primary creative outlet anymore. Sometime in the next several months, I hope to premiere a full-scale comic book which will be published in the “new page each week” format; something with an ongoing plotline, and continuing characters. Working on Dicebox <\/i>this month has reminded me that longer-form fiction was what I originally wanted to do when I became a cartoonist, and it’s time I got back on that track..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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