I don't know if I would recommend it or encourage someone who was just getting started, especially if they were trying to find a job in editorial cartooning. I would give them the realities of the business. There are simply not that many jobs. For a while, there were a lot of musical chairs in the newspaper business with cartoonists trying to find a spot. Some newspapers have pretty much stopped hiring cartoonists, and that fact has made it very difficult for new people to get into the business.
Comic strips are a hard sell because of the limited space on the comics pages.
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