Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for May 18, 2011

Yeah you can tell by their Bank accounts!

Lawyers

Newspaper and TV reporters.

newspaper reporters? TV reprters I could see. Why don’t you like newspaper reporters Josh?

“The mature young gentleman is a gentleman of property. He invests his property. He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares. As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares. Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great. Where does he come from? Shares. Where is he going to? Shares. What are his tastes? Shares. Has he any principles? Shares. What squeezes him into Parliament? Shares. Perhaps he never of himself achieved success in anything, never originated anything, never produced anything? Sufficient answer to all; Shares. O mighty Shares! To set those blaring images so high, and to cause us smaller vermin, as under the influence of henbane or opium, to cry out, night and day, ‘Relieve us of our money, scatter it for us, buy us and sell us, ruin us, only we beseech ye take rank among the powers of the earth, and fatten on us’! "

— Charles Dickens, “Our Mutual Friend”

“Investment bankers,’ said the person who sits at home and doodles creatively for a living. ;)

Yeah, but he probably don’t make millions for creating nothing.

Cartoonists create something of VITAL importance: Culture. The difference between “Adam@Home” and Hamlet, the Mona Lisa, or Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is one of degree, not one of kind.And as ironhand suggests, most working cartoonists are really poorly paid, considering the time and effort they put into their product. Think of how many middlemen there are between the creator and the end user, each of which takes a cut of the fraction of a cent you (or the advertisers) are paying for each strip you read: the syndicate, the newspaper or web-host… Of course, a tiny percentage of cartoonists can become PHENOMENALLY wealthy, but it takes no less effort to produce an unpopular strip than a popular one.Yes, comic-strip creators are truly among the unsung heroes of modern life. God bless ’em, every one.