Rose Anne Prevec is about to reach 100 — cartoons sold, that is.
A few years ago, the Dundas artist, who had been illustrating books and drawing cartoons for family and friends, decided to take her cartooning more seriously.
“At first, I posted my cartoons directly on Instagram,” she tells me. “Once those started getting attention from people who weren’t related to me, I went looking for publications.
Regina Haggo, for The Hamilton Spectator, profiles the (fairly) newly-minted cartoonist.
How did Rose Anne Prevec transition from communications to cartooning?
Prevec says she’s had a lot to learn to get up to speed. She read books on cartooning, listened to podcasts and signed up for classes with Amy Kurzweil, a cartoonist for The New Yorker. And most importantly, she drew and drew.
“I’ve now sold 99 cartoons to a variety of publications, notably Airmail, Alta Journal, Narrative, Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Humorist, and a bunch of other trade magazines and newsletters, as well as a handful of commissions.”
It didn’t hurt that she was an “illustrator of 3 children’s books, and writer. I studied art and art history, writing, and marketing at McMaster University where I worked at the McMaster Museum of Art for more than two decades.”
For the McMaster University retirees’ newsletter this Summer Rose Anne briefly wrote about her new career:
During my career spent promoting the work of weighty, world-class artists at the McMaster Museum of Art, there never seemed like a good time to whip out a stash of my cartoons and say, “Look at these things I made.” My doodles were private, shared only on birthday and Christmas cards to close friends and family. That changed in 2020.
So refreshing to see great line, colour and writing in an artist I hadn’t been aware of. Thanks.