While surfing the web for reporting on the Southern Baptists' convention in Dallas last week, I discovered that Dallas Voice has resumed posting my cartoons on the front page of their website. So welcome back, Dallas Voice! Glad to see you again.
The folks at Dallas Voice were colorizing my cartoons before I was. Some cartoonists object to that sort of thing, but I wasn't at all offended. It did prod me to start colorizing my cartoons regularly, especially after they gave an older woman in one of my cartoons dark magenta hair, which wasn't quite how I had pictured her.
At some point, however, they stopped printing my cartoons in the physical paper, continuing to post my cartoons on their website only. Curiously, they later continued posting my cartoons to a dedicated page of their website, but without any link to that page from any other page.
Eventually, they dropped my cartoons altogether; I assumed it was because I keep criticizing Republicans without offering a lot of But On The Other Hand material. Or it might have been a budgeting decision, since they didn't replace my cartoons with another editorial cartoon feature. With the disappearance of personal ads in the age of Craigslist, Grindr, and Scruff, followed by COVID-19's kneecapping the alternative press, many of my clients drastically scaled back their syndicated features in the past decade.
Dallas Voice must have resumed posting my cartoons late last year; I haven't seen that they have printed my cartoons on paper, though. At least not yet.
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