Consolidations at Gannett and other newspaper chains have meant few women cartoonists are actively making the comics that still reach many readers.
The latest warning signs for some female artists began last fall. Suddenly, their work began disappearing from many American comics pages.
Some female cartoonists say that as they endure double-digit percentage losses in their income from client papers, their representation in print, already historically unbalanced, is growing alarmingly, and disproportionately, small.“A long time ago, I got an email from a troll saying he could draw better than me with his penis,” said Price, whose award-winning strip is co-created with Rina Piccolo.
Karen Evans, the “Luann” co-writer who was recently elected board president of the National Cartoonists Society, said that among her and her colleagues, the future of newspaper comics can feel uncertain: “We’re all trying to figure it out.”Despite the challenges, cartooning and comics are still relevant, Evans said, and their creators deserve respect even as the industry changes. Her organization is expanding its members, and artists are trying out new art forms and mediums.
Dunn said she was aware of the coming Gannett changes last fall, but it was only this year that she saw the full financial impact of the restructuring: “It didn’t really start affecting me income-wise until the last two or three months.”The “Breaking Cat News” creator shared with her readers the bad news that she might have to make some hard financial decisions as her client income dropped sharply.
Kettler said she is sympathetic to the larger economic challenges faced by newspapers in a rapidly shifting environment. “I’ve been pretty vocal and open about the fact that we understand that it’s due to financial and cost constraints on the side of the newspaper companies, so we fully understand why” contractions and consolidations are “a new imperative for some of them.”
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