I drew the above a few weeks ago and was certain The New Yorker would want to publish it. But alas, they didn’t seem to like it as much as I did.
As a creative, letting go is part of the process. Or, at least finding a different way to get your work out there! As I write, I am listening to Kara Swisher’s podcast, and she’s interviewing Tina Brown in this episode. Brown, who was senior editor at The New Yorker in the 1990’s ( she bought a lot of my cartoons, for which I was, and am, always grateful) is speaking about “the end of days” of magazine publishing that we are experiencing right now. I agree. Brown continues to read The New Yorker (“which I still adore,” she says), but nothing else.
Swisher asks her, “What can be done? You have moved from medium to medium, you’re an unusual person.”
“Well you have to sort of be a news empressario, figure out other ways to tell stories. I mean, you’re doing it, constantly.”
Brown goes on to say that there are so many great writers that are struggling, scraping by, and she says, “That, to me, is one of the great sadnesses.”
Yet we creatives continue. Always facing that blank page, trying to tell stories that mean something to someone.
And trying to figure out how to do that.
I haven't listened to the Tina Brown episode yet.
I greatly enjoyed your responses to questions posed in Kara's piece a few weeks back which you responded to in your medium, cartoon panels.
It was brilliant and unique.