One sold, six rejected! Reject du jour.
I handed in seven cartoons this Tuesday, and was informed today that I sold one! That’s 100% better than last week! And one out of seven is better than one out of ten, which is why I don’t submit ten every week anymore! That’s the secret to my resilience, a smaller proportion of rejects! And the secret to feeling well-paid? My “finishes” only take about fifteen minutes to do, once I get around to them. Those that spend hours on their finishes get paid proportionally much less than me, even though technically they get twice as much per cartoon than me, being contracted (I’m freelance, half-price! But not really, when you think about it).
Happy Carolita is today.
Do you like this cartoon? Well, it was inspired by an idea that Emily from Emdashes provided. If it sold, we were going to have drinks at Bemelmans!
October 16th, 2007 at 8:49 am
I like your “Reject du jour”. It reminds me of when I lived in NYC and compared batches with a few other artists at Wednesday lunch, a risky thing to do in some ways, but enlightening.
What we’ve always needed is another market or two (or ten) for the kind of work we do. It’s sad to think of some of our gems hidden away in our vaults forever, seen only once or twice by an editor or two. Of course, one person’s gem is another’s petrified rock. Some of mine, I know, are better unseen.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Well, Mick, I started my Reject du jour as a way to purge myself now and then—I tend to post on Thursdays, which you may well know is the day we all find out if we have sold a cartoon or if we have not. Most of us find out the latter, alas! Most of my reject du jour cartoons are cartoons that I think will not be reconsidered by our editor. It’s like retiring their number. But sometimes I keep trying. None of my reject du jour cartoons have ever broken the barrier (though a few made it into Diffee’s “Rejection Collection”), so I guess I have figured it out!