cartoonistcoop
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What had prompted the unionization was a terrible meeting that Arnold [Drake] and I had with the publisher [Irwin Donenfeld, National Periodical Publications executive vice-president]…We went in to get a raise…and we went in and hassled this man for an hour, and finally he said something to the effect that he would give a dollar-a-page rate raise, which was ridiculous. And then he said he would only give it to one person at a time, and that I would be the [first] person, which was putting me totally on the spot…And we walked out because we realized this was a joke…The attempt to give [the raise] to one person was to isolate me–or whoever he offered it to–and at the same time to put me on the spot, because if I didn’t take it, nobody would get it. Better he should have said nothing at all, that would have been clear-cut. But this way of trying to isolate us, and divide us, was insulting…We did walk out, as I recall…that prompted us to hold the meetings to form the union.

- Bob Haney, writer

Parts one and two of our big comics labor history essay written by CJ Standal and edited by Blue Delliquanti are both available to read on the Cartoonist Cooperative Journal.


itsnero
@itsnero

Really amazed at this MASSIVE piece of writing up on the co-op's journal- if you have a free hour, check it out!


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