A Letter From The President – Marc Murphy of the AAEC
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I write this in my first days as President of the AAEC. I’m humbled by the honor, and have big shoes to fill. We have, moreover — all of us, not just political artists — work to do.
We’re in the middle of a Mass Extinction Event and the air is filled with the smell of rot. Newspapers are dying…
Marc Murphy, newly installed as President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, has written a letter of introduction and a State of the Art communique as he looks to the future.
Sure, changing business and reading preferences can be blamed. Those are beyond the scope of this piece and well-documented. There is another cause, though, more pernicious and generally unreported because that would require the publishers point fingers at themselves: Newspapers aren’t dying of natural causes or unavoidable market forces. They’re being killed, and the call is coming from inside the house…
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