Regular readers of this blog are well aware of the meltdown in print media and the collapse of the economic support for cartooning. Now that print media is no longer willing or able to pay salaries or even modest reprint fees to cartoonists, the only way cartooning can continue as an actual job is if cartoon fans support it directly.
Some of the ways I reach out directly to readers are through the Ted Rall Subscription Service, auctioning off the right to select my ideas, and even auctioning off dinner and drinks with me.
I recently asked you to consider supporting my computer fundraiser. Like other cartoonists, I need a laptop to take on the road and a desktop computer for home.
I’m halfway there! Thanks to everyone who contributed, my modest but beautiful 15-inch MacBookPro arrives next week.
If you’d like to kick in toward the desktop computer–I’d like to get an iMac–here’s what I’m offering in exchange for contributions:
$50 – rough sketch/drawing
$200 – original syndicated editorial cartoon
$500 – three original syndicated editorial cartoons
$2000 – five original syndicated editorial cartoons plus an original cartoon just for you, drawn to your specifications, about anything you want (you can choose the dialogue and everything)
To contribute simply click below:
And thanks!!! It’s been a nice run, and I’m very grateful for it, but I seriously have to consider giving up cartooning unless your support continues.
7 Comments.
Sorry, Ted. you can’t give up. You’re way too good. I have no money either, being a freelance journalist, but I’m still going to contribute.
Note: PayPal is telling me there’s a problem and it can’t take me to the page I requested. If there’s a workaround, please let me know.
Thanks for the heads up. Looking into it now.
OK, so I’ve put the button in. This should work much better, but please let me know.
Ted: Here’s a surefire way to re-energize your career and make beaucoup bucks. Switch sides. That’s right, I said it. Just start working (both op-eds and cartoons) for the right. Man, you’ll be rolling in the bucks in no time. Appearances at CPAC and so on. Hell, you’ll have your own show on Fox within a year.
Here’s the key: You need an excuse, and that excuse is Obama. “He disillusioned me, corporatist, anti-democracy, constitution shredder, etc ….” and voila! You’re a right-wing pundit. They won’t care about your past, just as long as you bash the living shit out of the left. I tell you, it’s a slam dunk.
As far as your principles, it’s a tough call. Cheap ass lefties who love their free shit, or the massive windfall on the right.
Hi,
I agree. You are too good to give up.
Please put up a button for a monthly donation. I want to donate automatically a little per month.
Thanks,
Sharon
Good suggestion Sharon. I’ll do that.
There’s also the Subscription Service…