It's not that illustration is a lost art, exactly. You only need look at any online magazine or print journal to see it's still called upon to accompany articles on everything from legal highs to food photography. But that's also the problem: illustration is seen as an addendum, often glossed over entirely -- a support act at best. (And we all know how many people turn out to watch the support.)
But Matt Bors wants to change that. As Editor-in-Chief of The Nib, Matt is far from a golden age-ist -- his magazine began life as a column on Medium, after all -- but he does want to see illustration and cartooning returned to its rightful place as an art form and a genre of journalism in and of itself.
The first print issue of The Nib hit shelves recently, tackling the grim but unavoidable subject of death. We spoke to Matt about the decline of editorial cartooning, creating "a salve for the constant onslaught of bad news," and how -- when it comes to illustration -- nothing matters more than a point of view.
Read the full interview on the Stack blog.