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Hi All,<\/p>\nHi All,<\/p>\n
Another lifetime ago, actually just back in 2017, I was the cartoon editor of The New Yorker<\/em>. I really liked that job but not so much that I wanted to stay on, especially after I was asked to leave.<\/p>\n I really had to go then, or I would have been arrested.<\/p>\n But why was I asked to leave? I like to think it was for appropriate behavior: selecting the cartoons that I thought were the best regardless of the identity of those who did them. I still think that\u2019s the best way to increase diversity without sacrificing quality.<\/p>\n Now, this might sound like sour grapes, but it\u2019s not, anyway, not now, because leaving that great job has allowed me to do something I could have never done while there. So those grapes are turning out to be quite sweet.<\/p>\n That something was to launch, one year ago, CartoonStock.com (now CartoonStock.com), where you are right now. You might be here because of the blogs or the caption contest, but the real reason for the site is to become the Google of the single-panel cartoon. That\u2019s Google when its motto was “Don\u2019t Be Evil” rather than “Give Us All Your Money.”<\/p>\n