You heard it here first. Rock stars often have strict photography rules for journalists attending concerts they’re reporting on. A Quebec newspaper decided to send their cartoonist instead of a photographer.
The Washington City Paper recently decided to boycott the Foo Fighters? restrictive concert photo contract by buying photos from fans instead. Now a different paper is protesting that same contract in a much different way.
This past weekend, the Quebec newspaper Le Soleil decided to send a cartoon sketch artist to cover a Foo Fighters? concert instead of putting a photographer in the media area.
I post almost in jest, but maybe there’s a market for reporting/live-sketching a concert for a cartoonist.
I have done that before when I worked for The Free Lance-Star. I’d review a concert and draw a cartoon to run with the review.