With the dot com crash at the turn of the millennium, artists and animators were among the first to be let go at online news sites.
Innovative new cartoonists, such as J83[2] (independent), and Shujaat Ali from the Aljazeera news website, are also appearing and making inroads in this evolving medium.
Used by many Australian news services the looping 3D cartoons, specifically developed for social media, have been viewed by millions and can be found at @twoeyehead on Twitter.
Peter Nicholson, of The Australian newspaper, publishes a new animation fortnightly, featuring the voices of mimic Paul Jennings.
In Britain, Matthew Buck (Hack) launched the first regular animated political cartoon for Tribune magazine[3] in May 2007 and subsequently started to work, weekly, for Channel 4 (News website).