Regular readers of this blog are well aware of the meltdown in print media and the collapse of the economic support for cartooning. The Herblock Foundation recently issued a white paper about the crisis of American editorial cartooning, to which I contributed one of several essays that explain the situation in detail. Columbia Journalism Review […]
Regular readers of this blog are well aware of the meltdown in print media and the collapse of the economic support for cartooning. Now that print media is no longer willing or able to pay salaries or even modest reprint fees to cartoonists, the only way cartooning can continue as an actual job is if […]
The media trumps up bullshit statistics that claim the economy is getting better, though it is getting worse. But it’s working–Obama’s poll numbers are going up. […]
Why E-Books Need Print to Thrive Borders and Barnes & Noble killed independent bookstores. Amazon killed Borders. Now Barnes & Noble, which sells more than 20 percent of pulp-and-ink books in the U.S., is under siege. If B&N collapses: the death of books. Cultural apocalypse. Neo-feudalism. You may remember such classics as “How the Internet [... […]
I need to know what this is. Is it a 3/4″ galvanized aluminum (it’s not magnetic) flange? Or something else? It would also be awesome if you know where I could buy 50 of them. […]
A date has been added to the BOOK OF OBAMA book tour: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Time TBA Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral Street Baltimore MD 21201 […]