{"id":2820,"date":"2009-01-24T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2009-01-25T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T11:21:10","slug":"future-cartoonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2009\/01\/future-cartoonists\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the future for cartoonists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gillray-1024x735.jpg\" alt=\"James Gillray on the French Revolution\" title=\"James Gillray on the French Revolution\" width=\"457\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter frame wp-image-2821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gillray-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gillray-207x148.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">A<\/span>side from cartooning, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattbuckhackcartoons.com\/\">Matt Buck<\/a><\/strong> keeps an excellent blog. He&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/hackcartoonsdiary.com\/2009\/01\/12\/the-ghost-of-james-gillray\/\">asking what the future holds<\/a> for political cartoonists, given the parlous state of the print media, and he invokes the spirit of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gillray\">James Gillray<\/a><\/strong>:<!--more--> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[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?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from cartooning, Matt Buck keeps an excellent blog. He&#8217;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:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2349,2346,2348,2067,2347],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-cartoons","tag-james-gillray","tag-matt-buck","tag-media-industry","tag-print-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}