The biggest complaint I see, especially from fans of printed newspapers, is the general lack of fresh cartoons. I realize there is the easy answer - going to a syndicate and let it go at that. But do we really need to read King of Id for the next 100 years? Here is a usual complaint as voiced by Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos.com.

I'm one of those guys who heads straight to the comics when I pick up my local alt-weekly (or the one from next door SF). The rest of the publication might be hit or miss, but the comics are always golden. Take those strips out of the papers (to save $10-20/strip run), and I have less incentive to pick up the paper. Luckily, my local alt-weeklies haven't gone nuclear on their cartoons (as far as I've noticed), but it's a disturbing trend that could still pick up speed.

My two favorites are Lloyd Dangle's Troubletown, who I just noted lives next door to me in Oakland, and Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World. But there are lots of other great cartoonists whose work I enjoy greatly. And it's a genre I'd hate to see die off. (As opposed to, say more commercial tripe like Family Circle, B.C., and Beetle Bailey.)
Meanwhile, in the big dailies, the staff political cartoonist is almost extinct. Given that the medium itself is almost dead, it's probably inevitable that the newspaper cartoonist would die alongside it, but still tragic.

We can't let the editorial (and humorist) cartoonist die. This is a great opportunity to revive the art form. Back in the better days of the Chron, Far Side got started in those pages. We can continue the tradition.
Here are some samples of my work (Google says the Bay Area is my highest readership)...





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