Evidence Discovered of Hope for Cartoonists

Cartoon markets are getting harder to find. You know it. That's why you bought this newsletter. I know it. That's why it's getting harder and harder to put out this newsletter.
But, in putting together this issue, I found a little ray of hope for the future of magazine cartooning.
You see, back in the Market News section of this newsletter you'll find a write up of a little magazine called PM Engineer. It's 50$ market that runs one single-panel gag cartoon in each issue. They pay on acceptance. All in all they're a pretty good, if unexceptional, little market.
We're writing about them because, aside from being a pretty good little market, they responded to one of the innumerable surveys that we send to editors in search of just such markets.
So, why mention them now?
Well, while I was wading through the mountain of paper that it takes to put out an issue of CARTOON OPPORTUNITIES, This little market jumped out at me. I thought I'd seen this publication before.
Ever mindful of quality and content, I wanted to be sure that we hadn't written about them any time recently. It seemed that sort of repetition would detract from our own newsletter's value.
So, with steadfast resolve to maintain our high standards, I rummaged about the heaps of paper around my office and deep in the bowels of the computer looking for mention of this little magazine
Sure enough, there it was.
To my relief, we hadn't written about PM Engineer in a long time.
It was about five years ago that we listed PM Engineer as a potential market. And, when I say potential market, I mean one of those listings where it says they haven't run cartoons before, but they're interested.
That was exciting to me, because we turned one of those potential markets into a real market.
There is one more pretty good little cartoon market in the world today because we found an interested editor and you sold him cartoons.
So, I urge you to submit to these potential markets. I know that some of them are going to turn out to be a hassle, because the editors are inexperienced at dealing with cartoonist. I know that, by simple percentages, some of them are going to be just about useless.
But, it's all going to be worth the effort.
Instead of sitting behind our drawing boards and wishing for the livelier, more vibrant cartoon market of thirty, forty years ago, this is our chance to do something about re-building the cartoon market of today. This is a chance to create a new market. This is a chance for us to make a potentially meaningful contribution, not only to our wallets, but to other cartoonists as well.
There are five more such potential markets in the current issue. If we work together, there could be five more cartoon markets in the world this time next month.