Interviewing

I'm about to go to some interview/testing/ops thing the Reveille, which is LSU's Daily Newspaper. They've been flooding me with emails, telling me that they haven't had a good cartoonist in years and that they're beyond stoked to see some of my work.

Hm. Cartoonist. Cartoonist for the newspaper? Why, that equates to political cartoonage. Something I'm not sure I feel comfortable with. I just feel like it'll be so easy to offend someone if I decide to do the political cartooning.

But, hey, it's a job. And I need money. And Walt Disney began his life as an artist being a political cartoonist for his local newspaper. So I keep telling myself that every time I feel like I'm not quite equipped for the job. I mean, I can draw. I know I can do a black and white pencil and ink sketch and have it ready to print quickly.....I'm just lacking in the ideas department.

Or wait, maybe it's not even that. I'm sure I'd have ideas, I'm just petrified of pissing someone off.

I really need to get over this "I can't have one person anywhere on the planet dislike me" thing. It's impossible to please everyone, and the sooner I actually learn that and apply it to my life, well, that's when you'll start seeing my political cartoons in the newspaper.