Clay Jones leaves Creators; begins self-syndication
Skip to commentsEditorial cartoonist Clay Jones has announced that he’s starting up his own syndicate to sell his editorial cartoons. The decision also cuts his syndication relationship with Creators where he’s been represented since 2000. Despite good relations with the syndicate, Clay’s reason for striking it out on his own are financial.
In an email he tells me:
You don’t make a lot of money in syndication. Everybody’s charging pennies for it. There’s a lot of competition and we’re all packaged like happy meals. I know I can make more on my own, and without options of working for a newspaper and being a cartoonist is what I’m supposed to be, I think self-syndication is the way for me to control most of my own fate.
Clay says he was self-syndicated in the 1990’s in Mississippi, so this isn’t a new thing for him.
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