One of America's most prolific cartoonists, Daryl Cagle, who has worked with Slate.com, will conduct a workshop in the city this week
Editorial cartooning is a negative art form, he says. “Cartoons that are positive are lousy. I have drawn very few cartoons about India,” he says.
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Cagle’s site syndicates Indian cartoonist Paresh Nath to newspapers around the world. “He’s really popular. I met a bunch of Indian cartoonists at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention last year,” says Cagle. “Maybe I’ll add another Indian cartoonist to syndication after this trip,” he adds.
A cartoon panel by Daryl Cagle
It is important to be funny as a cartoonist, but Cagle is impressed by those who aren’t funny, but still successful — cartoonists of The New Yorker, for example. “Conservative political cartoonists too, who are humourless, but think they are funny,” concludes Cagle.u00a0
