Blue Collar Muse

Some things just reach out and grab your attention as soon as you see them. A post over at Michael Silence’s ‘No Silence Here’ blog did just that.

The entire post, headline and all, was

Headline of the day

Cartoonists are disappearing like brunet anchors at Fox News

Silence links to a piece by Romenesko at Poynter Online. PO’s headline was ‘Cartoonists are disappearing like brunet anchors at Fox News’ and the story bemoans the shortage of political cartoonists as noted by James Rainey at the LA Times in his piece titled ‘Editorial Cartoonists: A Dying Breed’. Romenesko also quotes “Seattle Times cartoonist Eric Devericks [who] says that “media executives who fail to recognize the unique value of a local cartoonist are idiots and bad businessmen.”" My first thought was to wonder which is worth more, a political cartoonist or a good proofreader or spellcheck program? “Brunet”?

So I looked it up. Turns out “brunet” is actually a real word! It’s the male version of “brunette”. Who knew?

By the way, it may not be that political cartoonists are a dying breed. We have a couple of home grown guys from Tennessee who are starting out. Who knows, they may be the next big thing in political cartoons. Check out ‘Delta Bravo Sierra’ and ‘Pushing the Envelope’ for some fun Tennessee ‘toons!

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