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 […]
A great catch from Tom Spurgeon. Someone inserted Calvin & Hobbes into real photos.
From Business Insider: There’s a team of 100 product designers, marketers, and hardware and software engineers working on a smartwatch at Apple, Bloomberg reports. The size of the group suggests that the so-called “iWatch” project has moved beyond test stages. Bloomberg named two engineering managers, Achim Pantfoerder and James Foster, as involved int he project. […]
The first Snuffy Smith collection by John Rose is now available. The book is entitled The Bodacious Best of Snuffy Smith and contains John’s favorite strips from 2004 through 2013. “Having this collection published is truly a dream come true. Comic strip collections have lined the shelves of my bookcases for as long as I […]
John Gruber, of Mac blog Daringfireball fame, noted the increasing number of times he sees people use (*cough*) as a visual indicator of a verbal response to something the author just stated. After tweeting his curiosity on the matter, David Friedman ran it through Google Books looking to see when it started *cough* came into […]
USA Today profiles Nancy cartoonist Guy Gilchrist and how his new hometown of Nashville TN is energizing him. But while Gilchrist has preserved the strip’s style and tone, he’s also taken Nancy in new directions. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz once gave him a valuable bit of advice: The only way to do a comic strip […]
A Gerald Scarfe cartoon that ran in the Sunday Times is being called anti-Semitic by Jewish groups. Even Rupert Murdoch, the paper’s owner, tweeted, “Gerald Scarfe has never reflected the opinions of the Sunday Times. Nevertheless, we owe a major apology for grotesque, offensive cartoon.” The cartoon depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a […]
Saturday’s Doonesbury attempted at humor at the current state of newspapers by asking “what happens to comics if newspapers go away?” The strip left the 2nd and 3rd panel blank with the characters stating, “stick with print, folks. This doesn’t have to happen” in the last panel. You can read reader reaction on Doonesbury’s site. […]
Just a couple of months after an original Bill Watterson watercolor Sunday of Calvin & Hobbes went for an outstanding $203,150, comes another original Calvin & Hobbes to the auction block. This strip is a daily and was part of a swap of originals between Brian Bassett, creator of Adam@Home and Red and Rover, and […]