= 21 September 2024 =

Weekly Single Page of Cartoonmag / No 19

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NO:19 , Saturday, 21 September 2024

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NECESSARY SOLUTION…!

Abbas Naaseri / For two weeks, I have been writing about the prominent challenges facing the world of cartoons. Considering that last week I was a workshop instructor and a judge at the National Visual Arts Festival for Youth in the cartoon and caricature section, this week I want to talk about a danger threatening the future of cartoons.

Look around you, no matter which country you are in. The issue of the lack of professional young artists in cartoons and caricatures is a pressing concern worldwide. For instance, fifteen years ago at the Youth Festival, we witnessed the presence of professional teenagers and young adults, where every participant stood out as more skilled and professional than the others. At the same age, they had already made a name for themselves in the art world, and today, those same individuals are professional cartoonists and caricaturists in various parts of the globe.

But what legacy will remain for the future of cartoon starting today? When among the participants, with some favor, you can find only two or three individuals for whom you can envision a future. What has caused this crisis?

In a time when it was rare to find a magazine, a professor was often inaccessible, professional work was seldom seen, and connections were difficult to make, we witnessed the vibrant presence of young artists who quickly stabilized their place in the professional world,  and found their position for themselves among the greats. Yet today, despite all these facilities, access, websites, galleries, and so on, we do not see the same flourishing emergence of a new generation as well as the previous generation. Each of us might be able to name one or two individuals in our countries. Perhaps young artists, reflecting on the economic conditions of the pioneers in this art, are hesitant to venture into this realm. Perhaps today’s generation lacks the patience to endure the rigorous hardships that this art demands. Perhaps trainers, in an extreme betrayal, have tied the future of their students to illusory certification of Participate or the same fanciful certificates, hindering the greater effort and thirst for excellence among students.

Perhaps judges who manipulate results in favor of their like-minded networks have stripped this generation of their motivation to participate and progress. Perhaps the illusion that one can without practicing and working hard on drawing, color theory, spatial representation, and ideation, they think can create magic simply by purchasing a digital pen, has led this generation to this state. Just as the gradual decline of paper money in cash transactions has diminished the blessings from our lives, it seems that the decreasing presence of paper, pencil, and real design—along with printed catalogs—has sapped the blessings from the world of cartoons And perhaps, Any other may be, which a must need for resolution these, within the heart of all these uncertainties...

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