'Stone Soup' Cartoonist Laments Shrinking Panel Size

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By: E&P Staff "Stone Soup" creator/cartoonist Jan Eliot isn't the only one in her field dismayed by the shrinking size of comic strips these days, but she's the latest to express that sentiment publicly.

On her blog, Eliot -- beneath the headline "No Amount of Gin Can Relieve the Pain" -- recalls her recent trip to the gathering of the National Cartoonists Society's annual confab and Reuben awards.

"Since most of us rely on newspapers for the bulk of our income, and newspapers are struggling, there was a bit of a pall over the event," she writes. Eliot then offers a sobering comparison of comic-strip sizes since the start of her career.

Check it out, here .

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