Advice for Editorial Cartoonist by Clay Bennett

A Pulitzer Prize winner, Clay Bennett:

"Editorial cartoons are not always about politics," Bennett explains. "As long as it's got an opinion on a topic, it's an editorial cartoon." When he's thinking about ideas for cartoons, he doodles. His desk and the floor of his office are littered with dozens of pieces of paper covered with doodles."It sounds so mindless, and editorial cartooning is so mindful," Bennett says, "but I doodle all the time."

"Draw about what's important to you. Do you have too much homework? Do a cartoon about that. Draw about stuff at school. But watch out for caricatures of teachers!” Bennett also suggests paying attention to the news. "Read papers; listen to the radio." Not Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan, but National Public Radio or news programs. In fact, "my kids don't even think the radio in my car has any other stations than news," he says. "It's always just news, news, news all the time."

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