Dying Breed

This cartoon is a bit of an inside joke. Since the digital revolution, comic artists have steadily shifted toward creating their work on computers and tablets. The change makes sense for many reasons: digital tools can speed up the creative process, and programs like Photoshop make it easy to revise or correct mistakes. Still, a small and ever-shrinking group of cartoonists continues to work the old-fashioned way, using brushes, ink, paper, and other traditional tools of the trade. We're a dying breed—perhaps even on the verge of extinction.