Daryl Cagle may have been ahead of his time. The political cartoonist who launched an online cartoon syndicate in 2000, has built it into a going concern, with clients that include MSNBC.

“Ten years ago I was working as a daily cartoonist for Gannett's Honolulu Advertiser. My cagle.com web site was popular and I made a deal with Microsoft's Slate.com to partner, host and promote the site as part of Slate, which did a lot to boost our audience and our online profile," Cagle writes today. “Also in 2000 I hired a veteran syndicate salesman to sell my own political cartoons to newspapers, marking the start of our syndicate. And I hired a tech guy to build our syndication site, caglecartoons.com, and our pay-per-use site, politicalcartoons.com. We added a bunch of great cartoonists to our roster and now have over 850 subscribers to our package syndication service, with even more pay-per-use customers. I think our syndication package is the best available, by far."

His Political Cartoonists Index is also a great source of news about the editorial cartooning biz.