HUMOUR, LIMITED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 143, 2 June 1911, Page 11

HUMOUR, LIMITED.

Thirteen humorists have formed a limited liability company for the benefit of all humorous artists, and, it is to be hoped (says the j London journal), of the public as well. Every Thursday the comic illustrated Paris papers consider the unsolicited comic drawings brought by the artists themselves. One who went through the ordeal describes it as painful. A more or less out-at-clbow crowd of artists waits in the newspaper offices laden with portfolios. The editor looks at each artist’s offering in turn, accepts a few. and rejects the rest. An accepted cartoon may mean dinners for wife and family, a rejected one, bread and water. This picture of the humorous artists’ ordeal may be a little overdrawn. It is not only in comic illustration that the few’ succeed and the many fail, and it does not appear that a humorous artist who is any good goes long unrecognised and unrewarded in these days of humorous salons. But the thirteen humorous artists in question, who have all succeeded, and who in- ■ elude M. H. Willette. Steinlen, Leander. Hermann,. Paul, Jeon Veber, and H. G. Ibels, are convinced that their younger colleagues have a hard struggle, and they are banding together gener-

onsly to help them. They mean to "better the condition of the humorous artist.’’ The thirteen are bringing out a paper called simply "Les Humoristcs." There will he thirteen equal shares in the business. Outside contributions, when accepted, will be paid for at a much higher rate than in any existing journal. The thirteen will *orin the judging committee, and dt round a table to consider conributions. like the collaborators of "Punch." All luck to their venture, which is to pay artists more than any other paper pays them.