Amy Lago is the comics editor at Washington Post News Service (previously Washington Post Writers Group). She’s one of the best in the business. She walked through the stuff you can’t put in your comics if you’re publishing in newspapers.Notes Presentation title: How to succeed in comics without really trying Newspapers have a lot of […]
Tom Gammill is a comedy writer. He’s worked on Seinfeld, David Letterman, Saturday Night Live and currently a writer on The Simpsons.Notes: Tom Gammill reviews how he got into writing and attributes it to his early attempts to write comics “You need to be nice to everyone” Tom showed us his early cartoons from his […]
Mark Simon is a cartoonist, illustrator and animation producer. He gives a presentation called How to get millions of dollar with free advertising. Notes: How to get millions of dollar with free advertising Promotion is advertising What is promotion? Any coverage in media that you don’t pay for Promotion always tells a story; you give […]
Mark Anderson is a single panel gag cartoonists who’s sold cartoons to some of the best known magazines. He also has developed one of the best pay-per-use comic sites on the web.Notes: Presentation Title: Finding your Path Mark grew up in Iowa and loved cartoons; Bill Hoest was a big influence in determining to go […]
Tom Richmond is a MAD Magazine cartoonist, freelance illustrator and current president of the National Cartoonist Society.Notes: Presentation: How to be a successful freelance illustrator Went to school in Wisconsin. Didn’t learn a thing about cartooning. It wasn’t very a positive environment Started drawing caricatures during the summer job in Chicago He wanted to be […]
Stephen Silver is an caricaturist, illustrator, character designer and I dare say and after listening to him, I’d add motivational speaker for those in the arts.Notes: Nothing just happens. Effort determines the outcome Find what your passion is, make it your career Stephen grew up in England but family migrated to US Stephen would loiter […]
Jeff Keane is a past National Cartoonist Society president and does the comic panel The Family Circus which was started by his father Bil Keane in 1960. His presentation gave us a look at how his father’s career started and evolved and eventually created one of the most iconic comics on the funny page.Notes Bil’s […]
Tim Brennan is a founding partner in Reed Brennan and Associates a pagination and technology company owned by King Features. Got into newspapers in 1968. Tim was part of a project to study effects of information delivered electronically into homes in 1980’s Time ended the study in 1984. Tribune Media Services was formed based on […]
Ed Steckely is a professional illustrator in New York City who contributes to MAD Magazine. He talked about how the majority of his income is now in advertising illustration and what that all entails.Notes: 80% of income now is advertising illustration Was a caricature artist at theme parks Stressed the importance of learning to draw […]
The Knight Life, with a Biblical passage that makes the whole argument worthwhile.Fact is, the comparison is not all that far fetched. Funny, yes, but not far fetched.Back when I was doing the “Lookback” feature at the paper where I worked, the issue of registering cars came up in the 75 Years Ago files, and […]
A great catch from Tom Spurgeon. Someone inserted Calvin & Hobbes into real photos.
Indeed.The ideal news story today would be if Kate Upton took an unscheduled drink of water while stranded on a cruise ship that was buzzed by a meteorite. And, if none of that happened, we could fall back on coverage of Honey Boo Boo.I gave up on NBC Nightly News when they started doing features […]
Soup to Nutz on the competitive nature of belief.It’s interesting to note that, prior to the Babylonian captivity, the First Commandment did not require the Israelites to believe there was only one god. It simply required them to worship the appropriate one for them. If Moses had come back down the mountain and found everyone bowing […]
I’ve said that I approach each morning as a blank slate, waiting to see what topic the day’s cartoons will prompt me to riff on, but I’ll admit I have been hoping for a good “Papal retirement” cartoon, and with some increasing impatience.Apparently, judging from the cartoons, there appears to have been some sort of […]
Of the former president George W. Bush’s paintings that were made public by a hacker, Stephen Colbert [makes this great one-liner critique: “That is a bold, artistic vision that says ‘faces are hard.’](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/colbert-george-bush-paintings.php?ref=fpnewsfeed)” The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Maybe Bush should have taken up cartooning.