September 16th, 2007 | Posted in Freelancing
Q: I’m curious how much money can a cartoonist or a digital artist could make? Could they make as much as 6 figures, or not that much? A: The short answer is there is no definitive answer. There is a limit to your income because there is a limit to the time you can spend working. The freelancer is only one person, and therefore can only produce so much work. The ways to make more money are: Get as much work as humanly possible to do Get more money for the volume of work you can produce Hire assistants to do some of the work… READ MORE
September 15th, 2007 | Posted in General
Some links and tidbits of interest from around the Internet- Auctions of MADness- “The Journal of MADness” was a fanzine about MAD published by longtime MAD fan John Hett. It was a very well done fanzine and featured some great interviews with MAD contributors. John has a few auctions on eBay right now of some of his MAD memorabilia, including some pretty unique and rare stuff. Among the items: Original Don Martin art for the cover of “MAD’s Maddest Artist Don Martin Bounces Back” (the Warner 1976 reprint), which was the book that started is all (by that I mean National Gorilla Suit Day). Bill… READ MORE
September 14th, 2007 | Posted in MAD Magazine
When I got a call from MAD assistant art director Ryan Flanders about the “MAD‘s 50 Worst Things About Advertising” job he was pretty enthusiastic about the concept of using as many MAD artists as possible in the project. It’s a pretty cool idea, but I can imagine it was a production nightmare… cartoonists are by nature a little unpredictable and it is probably hard enough to get one person’s artwork in on a single job, let alone over thirty! Fortunately these spots were small and very quick and easy to bang out… I think I did mine in about two hours total, including a… READ MORE
September 13th, 2007 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops today and on newsstands on Tuesday, September 18th: MAD # 482 (Oct. 2007) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, Paul Coker, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Paul Gilligan, Jeff Kruse, Hermann Mejia, Irving Schild, Steve Smallwood, Rick Tulka, P.C. Vey) MAD’s 50 Worst Things About Advertising (Jeff Kruse and Scott Maijko, The Usual Gang of Idiots (see below*)) A MAD Look at Ratatouille (Sergio Aragon?¬©s) A Collection of Significantly Stupid Strategies for Battling Skyrocketing Gas Prices (John Caldwell) Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper) The Strip Club (Vic Black, Christopher Baldwin, Keith Knight, Joe Sayers, Ted Rall) Monroe and… The Summer… READ MORE
September 13th, 2007 | Posted in General
I’m off today to Alaska on a fishing trip with my father-in-law Joe and all my brother-in-laws to celebrate Joe’s 70th birthday. I am pretty sure I was invited along in case of a bear attack, where I am supposed to be the one who gets eaten while the others escape. I don’t know why I think that… maybe it’s the T-shirt they gave me for the trip that says “Bear Bait” in big letters and smells strongly of honey. Also I noticed my return ticket is the refundable kind. I won’t be back until Tuesday, if I get back at all. Never fear… through… READ MORE
September 12th, 2007 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Just a goofy doodle of a football player since the NFL (National Felon League) season is just underway. READ MORE
September 11th, 2007 | Posted in News
A few months ago I wrote about my appreciation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories, and especially about the audiobook readings by the incomparable David Ian Davies. I lamented that there was no complete, downloadable audiobook collection of the entire series of Conan Doyle Holmes stories (called by Sherlockians “The Canon”) in unabridged form. A bit later I was fortunate enough to get contacted by Mr. Davies about doing some art for a new collection he and One Voice Recordings were doing of the complete Canon in just such a format, called “One Voice Chronological: The Consummate Holmes Canon“. I did a… READ MORE
September 10th, 2007 | Posted in General
A few from Valleyfair yesterday: As humbling as it is to post these things, I am finding it to be beneficial for myself. Granted, it’s easy with hindsight to look at the still photos, groan and see where I could have done a much better job with this and that… but considering that information was there in front of me the whole time it’s a motivation to look harder to see things better the first time. READ MORE
