Is the American Editorial Cartoon Making a Comeback?
A little over a year ago, I wrote about The Herb Block Foundation’s gloom and doom report titled The Golden Age for Editorial Cartoonists at the Nation’s Newspapers is Over. Founded by legendary editorial cartoonist, Herbert Block, aka, Herblock, The Herb Block Foundation strives mightily to keep the tradition of the American editorial cartoon alive. Bound to the rapidly dying corpse of the American newspaper industry, American editorial cartooning seemed headed for the grave. News that Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow (some of his work shown above), will receive the 2013 Herblock Prize, however, might be a sign that the American editorial cartoon is making a comeback—not dying on dead trees, but coming alive with new technologies and social media. The phrase “see you in the funny pages” might be more of a thing of the past than ever. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Is the American Editorial Cartoon Making aComeback?"
[Image: Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow. “The Return of Droney” (detail, click herefor full comic), This Modern World, October 1, 2012.]
[Many thanks to Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, for his permission to run the image shown above.]
