Comments on: Tony Auth http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/10/12/tony-auth/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:40:52 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Lone Beader http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/10/12/tony-auth/comment-page-1/#comment-15730 The Lone Beader Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:26:43 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/10/12/tony-auth/#comment-15730 Great topic! I love editorial cartoons, and I've always felt that the artists never got enough recognition:) Great topic! I love editorial cartoons, and I’ve always felt that the artists never got enough recognition:)

]]> By: John B. Pierce http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/10/12/tony-auth/comment-page-1/#comment-15718 John B. Pierce Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:28:27 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/10/12/tony-auth/#comment-15718 As a haplessly tyro political cartoonist myself, I have long admired the great minimalistic work of Tony Auth. As a lifelong, native Angeleno, I grieve that I live in a community that has NO real political cartoonist being carried in its ONLY newspaper, the Tribune Publishing Co. abused Los Angeles Times. (Well, there IS the great Patrick O'Connor in the L.A. Daily News, but try buying that newspaper outside of the San fernando Valley...) The Times had carried the ultra-right-wing whining of one Michael Ramirez up to December of last year... And then, the money-grubbing shareholders of the Trib decreed the Times (and other former Times-Mirror newspapers) needed to trim back their personnel to improve the shareholders' bottom line. And suddenly, Ramirez is drawing his cranky Bush-apologist crud for Investors Business Daily in full color... but you're lucky to see even an illustration show up on the Times' op-ed pages. And starving fools like me? They won't want my ink -- other than on my personal checks for the subscription renewal. (I still have my last renewal bill that I never had the chance to pay for the late, great L.A. Herald Examiner; it's been tacked to my apartment wall since Thursday, Nov. 2, 1989. Great Hearst paper they let die; it loved trying out new writers and artists...) Ask me nicely enough and I'll share some of my bilge with you and your readers... I was referred to your blog by one Donna Woodka, the propreitor of Changing Places (at ). What's black and white and DEAD all over? #30# As a haplessly tyro political cartoonist myself, I have long admired the great minimalistic work of Tony Auth. As a lifelong, native Angeleno, I grieve that I live in a community that has NO real political cartoonist being carried in its ONLY newspaper, the Tribune Publishing Co. abused Los Angeles Times. (Well, there IS the great Patrick O’Connor in the L.A. Daily News, but try buying that newspaper outside of the San fernando Valley…)

The Times had carried the ultra-right-wing whining of one Michael Ramirez up to December of last year… And then, the money-grubbing shareholders of the Trib decreed the Times (and other former Times-Mirror newspapers) needed to trim back their personnel to improve the shareholders’ bottom line. And suddenly, Ramirez is drawing his cranky Bush-apologist crud for Investors Business Daily in full color… but you’re lucky to see even an illustration show up on the Times’ op-ed pages. And starving fools like me? They won’t want my ink — other than on my personal checks for the subscription renewal. (I still have my last renewal bill that I never had the chance to pay for the late, great L.A. Herald Examiner; it’s been tacked to my apartment wall since Thursday, Nov. 2, 1989. Great Hearst paper they let die; it loved trying out new writers and artists…)

Ask me nicely enough and I’ll share some of my bilge with you and your readers… I was referred to your blog by one Donna Woodka, the propreitor of Changing Places (at ).

What’s black and white and DEAD all over? #30#

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