Black Ink Monday Links

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)
  • Plus! Letters to the Tribune (scroll down)
    
• 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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