By: E&P Staff The Wall Street Journal, which ran a story last month about newspapers comics, has published a letter responding to that piece from Creators Syndicate President Rick Newcombe.
Newcombe's letter read, in part: "Joanne Kaufman ... wrote that newspapers are slower to change comics than they used to be, implying that new cartoonists are struggling to have their work seen.
"While it is true that selling comic strips to newspapers is more difficult than in the past, it is also true that there are greater opportunities than ever for young cartoonists because of the proliferation of new media....
"Online newspapers and independent Web sites are adding new comic strips every day. The sales are not generating the revenues that traditional newspaper sales provide, but many of us believe they will eventually....
"I have been syndicating comic strips since 1978, and I have never seen comic strips' readership at such a high level, if you include both newspaper and Internet readership. Focus on one while ignoring the other, and you will get a distorted picture of what's happening with syndicated comic strips today."
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