Comments on: News briefs for December 8, 2009 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/12/08/news-briefs-for-december-8-2009/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: John Read http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/12/08/news-briefs-for-december-8-2009/#comment-88686 John Read Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:07:12 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=6010#comment-88686 This has nothing to do with the News Briefs, but I wanted to say (okay, brag) that I also enjoyed spending time during that same weekend in San Francisco with Patrick "Mutts" McDonnell, Stephan "Pearls Before Swine" Pastis, Darren "Candorville" Bell, Justin "MythTickle" Thompson, Jeannie "Peanuts" Schulz and Alex "Kid Beowulf" Fajardo! Plus, I got to tour Pixar's studios! Timing is everything, folks! One of my better weekends. This has nothing to do with the News Briefs, but I wanted to say (okay, brag) that I also enjoyed spending time during that same weekend in San Francisco with Patrick “Mutts” McDonnell, Stephan “Pearls Before Swine” Pastis, Darren “Candorville” Bell, Justin “MythTickle” Thompson, Jeannie “Peanuts” Schulz and Alex “Kid Beowulf” Fajardo! Plus, I got to tour Pixar’s studios! Timing is everything, folks! One of my better weekends.

]]> By: John Read http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/12/08/news-briefs-for-december-8-2009/#comment-88685 John Read Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:58:06 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=6010#comment-88685 I had the pleasure of meeting Pete (for the first time) a few weekends ago at the Schulz Museum, and got to talk to him for several minutes because I was the last person in a very long line of fans there to see him. As we chatted (he agreed to an interview in "Stay Tooned!" sometime!) he drew me an unsolicited sketch of Woody from "Toy Story." I like Pete Docter. :0) I had the pleasure of meeting Pete (for the first time) a few weekends ago at the Schulz Museum, and got to talk to him for several minutes because I was the last person in a very long line of fans there to see him. As we chatted (he agreed to an interview in “Stay Tooned!” sometime!) he drew me an unsolicited sketch of Woody from “Toy Story.” I like Pete Docter. :0)

]]> By: Stephen Beals http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/12/08/news-briefs-for-december-8-2009/#comment-88678 Stephen Beals Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:14:14 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=6010#comment-88678 I went to school with Pete a couple of lifetimes ago and would give him the clipped out Calvin and Hobbes strips my mother mailed me. He papered the wall by his desk with Calvin strips. Eventually Pete made a T-Shirt of Calvin that he sent to Universal with the polite suggestion that Calvin T-Shirts would be great (this was long before we knew of Watterson's desire not to commercialize). Needless to say, he received a cease and desist letter from Universal's lawyers. So he hung the letter on his wall. I love that story. Great guy. Fantantastic artist. Made me look like a talentless hack back then, too. I went to school with Pete a couple of lifetimes ago and would give him the clipped out Calvin and Hobbes strips my mother mailed me. He papered the wall by his desk with Calvin strips.

Eventually Pete made a T-Shirt of Calvin that he sent to Universal with the polite suggestion that Calvin T-Shirts would be great (this was long before we knew of Watterson’s desire not to commercialize).

Needless to say, he received a cease and desist letter from Universal’s lawyers. So he hung the letter on his wall.

I love that story.

Great guy. Fantantastic artist. Made me look like a talentless hack back then, too.

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