Cartoons For The New Yorker
My wife and I went for a three and a half mile run early this morning, and since then I've been preparing the next batch of "The Percenters" to send off to the New Yorker. I haven't been published there yet, but from everything I've read, it's a very long road to get there. Some of the most famous and now iconic New Yorker cartoonists spent years submitting before their first cartoon was published. The competition is fierce, and the work must be your absolute best. The New Yorker subscriber is typically a sophisticated, well informed reader, and the cartoons must be a reflection of that.
The typical process of submitting is to create about a dozen single panel gag cartoons suitable to the New Yorker's market, ink them in, and submit them black and white via conventional mail once a week if you can, or less frequently as the case may be. In a relatively short period of time, you will likely receive something like this in your mailbox:
The New Yorker editor, Bob Mankoff, is a professional cartoonist himself, and started the same way we all do - submitting regularly, and for a significant period of time before finally selling one to the magazine. Bob has a great sense of what is appropriate, and aften offers feedback to the aspiring New Yorker cartoonist. Here's Bob in a Youtube video at the Chicago Humanities Festival speaking about the craft of cartooning - a long video but well worth the time. It also features some of the other big name cartoonists:
Keep up the cartooning and best of luck! Back to the drawing board!
The typical process of submitting is to create about a dozen single panel gag cartoons suitable to the New Yorker's market, ink them in, and submit them black and white via conventional mail once a week if you can, or less frequently as the case may be. In a relatively short period of time, you will likely receive something like this in your mailbox:
As a professional cartoonist, this is a common, regularly scheduled occurance. It isn't personal, nor is it even necessarily a rejection of your work. It could be for a host of reasons - the market is saturated, they've already purchased a cartoon with a similar theme, the piece is not timely, and on and on. As soon as your submission is dropped off at the post office, forget it and put your energy and attention on the next submission. The tenacity, commitment and creative routine will pay off in time.
The New Yorker editor, Bob Mankoff, is a professional cartoonist himself, and started the same way we all do - submitting regularly, and for a significant period of time before finally selling one to the magazine. Bob has a great sense of what is appropriate, and aften offers feedback to the aspiring New Yorker cartoonist. Here's Bob in a Youtube video at the Chicago Humanities Festival speaking about the craft of cartooning - a long video but well worth the time. It also features some of the other big name cartoonists:
Keep up the cartooning and best of luck! Back to the drawing board!
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