Some of my recent New Yorker rejects [OC]

[u/Casual_Deviant]

[u/Casual_Deviant]

Thanks! They get hundreds/thousands of submissions a week, so it's not too surprising. Sold my first one a few months ago and fingers crossed a second sale comes soon!

[u/AsstBalrog → u/Casual_Deviant]

Kudos -- what is TNY paying per toon these days?

[u/Casual_Deviant → u/AsstBalrog]

Thanks! It’s not always perfectly up to date, but I generally use this as my guide for what the various markets pay: https://colemantoons.com/marketlist.php

[u/seetons → u/Casual_Deviant]

Am I really led to believe here that the WSJ pays only $170 for a cartoon and they need to be sent to a gmail address?

[u/Casual_Deviant → u/seetons]

Correct!

[u/dividezero → u/seetons]

It's been decades but I don't remember cartoons in the WSJ, just those engraved style line drawings. Maybe it's that. But still. You'd be surprised how the sausage is made in every industry. A gmail address is kinda sophisticated for the shit I've seen. So much of the world is dependant on a laptop that's been on since Obama was president and everyone forgot about it under a bunch of files somewhere in a back room.

Shit, I had to talk my team out of moving a server to an raspberry pi and stick it somewhere. I had to explain all the ways that's stupid in detail before they have up on the idea. And the bill really isn't that much anyway so I'm not sure what they were trying to solve.

And the number of times entire departments were held together with literal duct tape. I've worked for some big places and seen some shit man

[u/Continental__Drifter → u/seetons]

It's the WSJ.
They're a fucking joke.
I'm surprised it isn't yahoo address.

[u/jewrassic_park-1940 → u/Continental__Drifter]

Come on man why the drive-by

[u/cortesoft → u/seetons]

Why would they pay more than that when paying $170 gets them thousands of submissions a week, with good enough quality that they are rejecting ones as good as the ones in this post? I don’t think the quality would go up much if they paid more.

[u/purplepluppy → u/cortesoft]

Well that's the WSJ not New Yorker.

[u/TheSorceIsFrong → u/seetons]

Pickleball Magazine pays 150 lol

[u/turikk → u/seetons]

Am I really led to believe here that the WSJ pays only $170 for a cartoon and they need to be sent to a gmail address?

this is a 3rd party site collecting various submission methods and many are dead links. i trust /u/Casual_Deviant but i'd take this with a grain of salt, there is probably a better way to do it.

[u/Casual_Deviant → u/turikk]

I have sold cartoons to the WSJ — I can confirm it’s the correct email address!

[u/turikk → u/Casual_Deviant]

i wonder if this is a secret back channel to the editor of that column. i might have to ask my family member who worked at WSJ 😂

[u/Casual_Deviant → u/turikk]

WSJ actually contracts out their cartoons to a syndication company, so you’re emailing a small business vs. anyone at the actual newspaper.

[u/AsstBalrog → u/Casual_Deviant]

Thanks. Planet Nude Newsletter is cheap AF, but bragging rights I suppose.

[u/Stalking_Goat → u/AsstBalrog]

You publish in that one mostly for the…

Exposure.

[u/AsstBalrog → u/Stalking_Goat]

Lemme finish my coffee before you people start in with it

[u/huitlacoche → u/AsstBalrog]

that was your coffee? sorry

[u/OrienasJura → u/Casual_Deviant]

Someone please teach my man some basic CSS.

EDIT: The header image is nested inside a paragraph this is amazing

[u/mainman879 → u/OrienasJura]

It's a simple site that does exactly what it needs to and nothing else. It's old perfection. A lost art really.

[u/chimpfunkz → u/mainman879]

That's an HTML website that he built himself in a week. It works exactly as it needs to, and requires zero upkeep other than content. He pays $0 for web development to accomplish 100% of the goals.

[u/DogOwner12345 → u/mainman879]

It makes my screen black when I click it imao.

[u/i-dont-speel-no-good → u/OrienasJura]

NEEDS MORE ADS, COOKIE ALERTS, AND EMBEDDED AUTO PLAYING VIDEOS!

[u/Banjo-Elritze → u/OrienasJura]

How about no?

[u/SadMasterpiece7019 → u/OrienasJura]

Someone please teach my man some basic CSS.

YES. Also some client-side scripting and ad trackers. This isn't the 90s anymore.

[u/SophiaofPrussia → u/Casual_Deviant]

The “Progressive Dairyman” has to be a joke, right? They seem to have forgotten that women exist and they only pay $10 for a cartoon? Not exactly what I’d call progressive…

[u/AmericanScream → u/Casual_Deviant]

Do they ever give you any useful feedback as to why they were rejected?

It makes me wonder, whether it might be prudent to try and re-submit the same cartoon later in time? Some of those are really, really good and I can't imagine the New Yorker not using them.

[u/Casual_Deviant → u/AmericanScream]

People do often submit the same toon a few times! I’ve done it from time to time with some that I think are especially good, but usually I just shop them around to other markets and end up posting them on social media.

[u/debasic → u/Casual_Deviant]

It's probably just a handful of people deciding on these

[u/Casual_Deviant → u/debasic]

It’s primarily the Cartoon Editor!

[u/LainieCat → u/Casual_Deviant]

Best job ecer

[u/stefan_stuetze → u/Casual_Deviant]

They all made me nod with respect apart from the cavemen in hell one, that made me laugh out loud.

[u/Prysorra2 → u/Casual_Deviant]

Loving the vague Don Hertzfeldt vibe

[u/No-Lunch4249 → u/Casual_Deviant]

Ah, you see, these are too comprehensible and funny for the newyorker