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Rejection Is Still Hard Sometimes
I have cultivated an extremely thick skin for rejection after years in sales and cartooning, but I got a rejection letter today that, for some reason, really cut me to the quick.
Here’s the bad part:
I’m OK with the standard form letter, but the fact that they took the time to beg me in handwriting to please stop sending them my submissions hurt more than I’m used to.
Greeting cards have been a good extra stream of revenue for me in the past year or so, and I thought Recycled might be a good fit.
Guess not…
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Comments
SEND MORE TO THEM!
Posted by: Ralph | Jul 1, 2006 at 5:51 pm
LOL! I dunno… I think I know when I'm not wanted…
Posted by: Andertoons | Jul 4, 2006 at 9:20 am
Thanks for sharing. Perhaps they prefer recycled jokes.
Posted by: Brad Shorr | Jul 4, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Why did the chicken send in cartoons to Recycled?
Posted by: Andertoons | Jul 4, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Because they pay chickenfeed.
Posted by: Brad Shorr | Jul 5, 2006 at 7:42 am
LOL! OK, I give… I give…
Posted by: Andertoons | Jul 5, 2006 at 7:45 am
That's a cold rejection letter. Makes me cringe…
Posted by: s a m m o | Jul 5, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Honestly, I'm so used to nicely worded, heck, even saccharine let-downs, that this one really surprised me.
Posted by: Andertoons | Jul 5, 2006 at 7:31 pm
If it's any consolation, I've received the same rejection. At least twice (I'd wait a year and resubmit.) Clearly they have an aversion to cartoonists named Mark.
Posted by: mark heath | Jul 6, 2006 at 7:23 am
I've considered cahning my name to Max Power, a la Home Simpson. Maybe that'd help…
Posted by: Andertoons | Jul 6, 2006 at 7:34 am
Don't waste your time with them, they pay lousy after a loooong test phase and take their own sweet time to return samples. Phooey on them says I!
Posted by: Adam | Jul 6, 2006 at 11:29 am
That's good info to have! Thanks, Adam!
Posted by: Andertoons | Jul 6, 2006 at 11:33 am
Ouch…that's just…mean.
Posted by: CAD Monkey | Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Yeah, well… Goes with the territory sometimes I guess…
Posted by: Andertoons | Jul 10, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Hey Mark,
I'm the author of that rejection letter. You failed to mention that you have been sending our company your cartoons for years. I've sent you many previous letters asking you not send anymore designs in a "nice way". I said that I didn't think your cards were a good fit for our company. It seemed as though nothing was getting through. I actually figured we were on a distribution list of yours and they were always going to keep coming. Sorry that it had to be so harsh.
-Steve
Posted by: Stephen | Oct 2, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Steve, thanks for commenting! I've replied here:
http://andertoons.typepad.com/cartoon_blog/2006/10/recycled_paper_.html
Posted by: Andertoons | Oct 2, 2006 at 5:24 pm