A Couple CA Articles

This month is the Communication Arts Annual Illustration issue. They had a couple of interesting articles:

This one called Riding the Wave I found rather depressing in a lot of ways because it seems to indicate that a career as an illustrator is over. Maybe I read it wrong but I am curious what others think...

On a different subject, they also have an article about pitching a graphic novel to a publisher. It is not online yet but I will post a link if they put it up.

By the way, was anyone local in the annual?