Submitting To A New Paper

I am a member of an older artists' society! It's a fantastic place. They count huge names among their members.

The society needs help attracting younger members at the moment. They have a billiard table which the older members appreciate, but they are also trying to throw parties for the younger generations, with DJs and music and dancing.

(I sent in this cartoon but have yet to hear back from them.)

I am one of the younger generations.

They re-started their magazine--now a newspaper--after Covid, with new editors. They called out for submissions, explicitly also requesting cartoons! I am a cartoonist. That was an excellent opportunity to have my cartoons seen by the cultural elite, the hoi polloi of my area.

So I sent in some cartoons.

After two weeks, it turned out that my email had been captured in their spam filter. So I came up with this cartoon:

On a side note, isn't it wild that we let a computer filter out messages meant for us? Imagine if the postal service worked with a spam filter, looking at the envelope and deciding that you don't want this letter.

I'm a bit afraid to send in more cartoons. I hadn't realized this before, but I am new there, and you can get disbarred from that society if you offend someone over there, and cartoons can sometimes offend people. So I'll be laying low for a while.

I am looking forward to seeing where that goes, though!