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By 2013, the 1993 New Yorker cartoon "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" had earned its artist $200,000 to $250,000 from reprints.
Peter Steiner's cartoon ran in The New Yorker in 1993, when few people were online. Boing Boing called it the most popular and well-known panel the magazine ever produced. Bob Mankoff told the site in 2013 that Steiner's share of reprint fees had reached $200,000 to $250,000, and that every book on communications seemed to ask to reprint it.
Sources
- On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog Wikipedia
- Everybody Knows You're a Dog (Glenn Fleishman) Boing Boing (archived by the Wayback Machine)
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What the wording keeps
- earnings as of 2013
- Steiner's share of the fees
- 'most popular' is Boing Boing's judgement; Wikipedia says 'most reproduced'
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