Freelance Cartooning

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on January 1, 1970
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Illustration by MOTHER EARTH NEWS staff
Freelance cartooning can be a real career if you approach it with a few tips in mind.

Now look, gang, don’t get us wrong: We’re most certainly not suggesting that half the readers of MOTHER EARTH NEWS are gonna run out and become freelance cartoonists immediately after reading this article. A few, yes. The great majority, no. We’ve gone pretty deeply into the how of this particular work-at-home dodge, though, for several reasons:

• It’s a fascinating field.
• It’s part of the communications/persuasion industry which plays an increasingly important part in our lives.
• Similar to writing, commercial art and various other skills and crafts, cartooning does offer a way out of the 9-to-5 rap for a certain number of talented and determined individuals.
• It’s mainly a mail-order operation which means it neatly sidesteps race, color, creed and most other excuses we all use for putting bad trips on each other.
• Successful freelancing — whether as plumber, cartoonist, cake baker, baby sitter, candle maker or whatever — depends on a certain lifestyle all its own. The products (skill, drawings, pastry, mere presence, decorator items, etc.) may differ but the ground rules are always the same: You’re either your own man, work when, where and at what you like and successfully exchange your output for what you need and want … or you go back to pumping gas on the corner.

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