About 20 years ago I was hanging out in the offices of Punch, the famous London humor magazine. I was just a kid at the time, for some reason the cartoon editor (who was a famous cartoonist in his own right) was tolerating having me around that day.

I was asking him questions about the biz. He was answering them as best he could while he sorted through a large stack of mail.

"Take a look at this, Sunshine," he said, handing a piece of paper over to me.

I gave it a look. Some cartoonist whose name I recognized had written him a rather sad and desperate letter, begging to be published.

"Another whiny letter from another whiny cartoonist who used to be famous 20 years ago," he said, rolling his eyeballs. "I get at least fifty of them a week from other whiny formerly-famous cartoonists."

He paused. Then he smiled a wicked grin.

"How NOT to get published," he said. "Write me a bloody letter like that one."

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