Black Ink Monday, a non-violent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), is a response to the Tribune Company's recent elimination of editorial cartooning positions at several of its newspapers, as well as a commentary on newspapers everywhere who have lost sight of the value of having a staff editorial cartoonist.
Are you as mad as we are? If so, tell it to the Tribune Company's
Gary Weitman, VP of Communications: gweitman@tribune.com
- Black Ink Monday Cartoons
- Press
Release
- Cartoonists try to save a dying art
(The Buffalo News, On the Media, 12/28/2005)
- Funnies No More
(Citypaperonline, Political Animal by Brian Morton, 12/14/2005)
- You're
killing us
(LA Times, Joel Pett,
12/18/2005)
- They Won't Go Quietly
(The Chicago Reader, Hot Type, 12/16/2005)
- Death
of Editorial Cartoons No Laughing Matter
(The Huffington
Post, 12/13/2005)
- BLACK
INK MONDAY ... a political cartoonist protest against
lost jobs
(MSNBC, Daryl Cagle, 12/12/2005)
- Romenesko
(PoynterOnline, 12/12/2005)
- Cartoon
Site's Traffic Soars As 80-Plus Artists Join 'Black Ink'
Protest
(Editor & Publisher 12/12/2005)
- Metafilter
(12/12/2005)
- CBS
News, Public Eye
(12/12/2005)
- Support your
LOCAL cartoonist
(Downloadable Lesson from Cartoons for the Clasroom, 12/12/2005)
- Vanishing
ink: Cartoonists fade
(Raleigh News & Observer, 12/11/2005)
- What’s
the best part of the paper? Do I have to draw a picture?
(The State, Columbia, SC,
12/9/2005)
- Editorial
Cartoonists Plan 'Black Ink Monday' to Protest Job Losses
(Editor & Publisher (12/5/2005)
Blog commentary
- The
Guardian
- Drawn
- Comic
Research.org
- Links
to another two dozen blog comments here
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