There was a time — most of the 20th century, in fact — when it was possible for cartoonists to make a living as cartoonists. With few exceptions, those days are gone. Bill Waterson bowed out at just the right time, in late 1995, right before the decline of print media in general and newspapers in particular.
Ten years after the Richard Taylor book was published, the Famous Artists School introduced its cartooning correspondence course. It competed with the cartooning course from the Art Instruction Schools that Charles M. Schulz took. He later became an instructor at the school.
Here’s another good exhibit for me to see at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.