“Flat, dead-tree” cartooning will dwindle in importance … editorial cartoons will be computer-animated.
Predictor: Wright, Larry
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The New York Times, Michael Wines interviews Larry Wright, an editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News. Wines writes:”Larry Wright, a cartoonist at the Detroit News, is designing the newspaper’s new site on the Internet with editorial cartoons as a regular feature. He has come to believe that is the wave of the future, and that ‘flat, dead-tree’ cartooning – his words for two-dimensional newspaper art – will dwindle in importance. The News site will encourage readers to talk back by e-mail. Eventually, he predicts, editorial cartoons will be computer-animated – ‘The Simpsons,’ after all,is the work of a political cartoonist who could not break into mainstream newspapers. ‘Why not?’ he said. ‘If the technology’s there, why shouldn’t a cartoonist change his thinking about the concept of a cartoon? Why wouldn’t he stop thinking of starting with flat cartoons and then trying to animate them, and just begin with animation?'”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Cartoonists See a Future That’s No Joking Matter
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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