It seems that one of the major points of discussion during ICON, a biennial illustration conference, was if Animation is the future of Illustration and whether Illustrators should maybe even drop that name for something terribly generic like "visual artist".
For quite a few years now one of the major Dutch news-background television programs, for which I was a video editor for a number of years but that is beside the point, has been broadcasting short animated editorial cartoons by Joep Bertrams. Like the one posted here.
