Satire-Mag Entry
----Yet another low-key entry salvaged from my flash-drive, this one dates from around 2013, and it was my submission for a competition to find a new cartoonist for one of the British Satire Mags [I forget which one].........my 'record' in this branch of cartooning is next to non-existant: I did try this route for a few short weeks in 2000 but never really persevered like perhaps I should have; I discovered later that even top cartoonists can spend a year, --or even a few years------submitting works before finally being accepted.
The rejection rate for unknowns is very high; however once an Editor recognizes you as being reliable and consistent, this is when the work can start to pour in, so it can be well worthwhile going this route---and the pay isn't bad, I reckon around 70 UK pounds for the example seen here.
At one time, the UK gag market was healthy, vibrant and throbbing, with weekly magazines such as WEEKEND and TITBITS publishing scores of cartoons every week; sadly this field has dwindled significantly, and other than solitary diehards like the Scottish WEEKLY NEWS, the core bulk of these cartoons are nowadays relegated to the likes of SPECTATOR, PRIVATE EYE or THE OLDIE, a field that has never especially appealled to me personally: the last time I looked through one of these publications, I was aghast to see the space reserved for most of the cartoons had shrunk to postage-sized proportions.
In the early 2000s, the likes of the revamped PUNCH ran full-page, full-color gags that had often savage content: the cartoonist MACLACHLAN was one purveyor of such fare that sticks in my memory; if the industry was still putting out works like these, I may well have instilled some decent interest in this field-----but there is not a great deal out there to inspire or attract me personally, I am afraid.
The British gag market is restrained, reserved, conservative and riddled by snobbery-----unfortunate human traits that have spilled over into one of the main cartoonist forums, which is populated by many toonsmiths of this gag-orientated output.
Just too much 'Dentists' Waiting Rooms' ambience in this sphere of cartooning for my pallette; give me the more freewheeling, unpretentious USA equivalent MAD MAGAZINE any day-----much better standard of drawing in there as well.
Anyway, this entry seen below is presented in reverse order of production, and has never been screened anywhere in public before------oh, yes, I forgot to mention: the magazine Editors never even bothered replying to me.
Just another of the many reasons I am not too interested in pursuing this aspect of cartooning-------others are Hellbent on cracking the gag market, however: I know this for a fact through corresponding with other artists.
I honestly forget which magazine ran this competition.
The rejection rate for unknowns is very high; however once an Editor recognizes you as being reliable and consistent, this is when the work can start to pour in, so it can be well worthwhile going this route---and the pay isn't bad, I reckon around 70 UK pounds for the example seen here.
At one time, the UK gag market was healthy, vibrant and throbbing, with weekly magazines such as WEEKEND and TITBITS publishing scores of cartoons every week; sadly this field has dwindled significantly, and other than solitary diehards like the Scottish WEEKLY NEWS, the core bulk of these cartoons are nowadays relegated to the likes of SPECTATOR, PRIVATE EYE or THE OLDIE, a field that has never especially appealled to me personally: the last time I looked through one of these publications, I was aghast to see the space reserved for most of the cartoons had shrunk to postage-sized proportions.
In the early 2000s, the likes of the revamped PUNCH ran full-page, full-color gags that had often savage content: the cartoonist MACLACHLAN was one purveyor of such fare that sticks in my memory; if the industry was still putting out works like these, I may well have instilled some decent interest in this field-----but there is not a great deal out there to inspire or attract me personally, I am afraid.
The British gag market is restrained, reserved, conservative and riddled by snobbery-----unfortunate human traits that have spilled over into one of the main cartoonist forums, which is populated by many toonsmiths of this gag-orientated output.
Just too much 'Dentists' Waiting Rooms' ambience in this sphere of cartooning for my pallette; give me the more freewheeling, unpretentious USA equivalent MAD MAGAZINE any day-----much better standard of drawing in there as well.
Anyway, this entry seen below is presented in reverse order of production, and has never been screened anywhere in public before------oh, yes, I forgot to mention: the magazine Editors never even bothered replying to me.
Just another of the many reasons I am not too interested in pursuing this aspect of cartooning-------others are Hellbent on cracking the gag market, however: I know this for a fact through corresponding with other artists.
I honestly forget which magazine ran this competition.
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