Aside from car­toon­ing, Matt Buck keeps an excel­lent blog. He’s been ask­ing what the future holds for polit­ical car­toon­ists, given the par­lous state of the print media, and he invokes the spirit of James Gillray:

[A]re we going to see people like me dir­ectly employed by polit­ical fac­tions again in the future? And if that hap­pens, will it be a good or a bad thing? Is it a return to the roots of car­toon­ing and other fun and nas­ti­ness, or a step away from the at least eco­nom­ic­ally inde­pend­ent media industry which replaced it, pos­sibly for good reason?