Cartoonist Bill Abbott directs other cartoonists to a long list of British greeting card companies. Learn the proper way to spell colour and submit a few things.
via Bill Abbott’s Blog.
Author: Mark Heath
I'm a freelance cartoonist. My work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Harvard Business Review, American Scientist, Woman's World, and others. I'm also the creator of Spot the Frog, a comic strip you can find at Gocomics.com.
Poultrygeist: the Pun
This isn’t a video recommendation. I haven’t watched it. I haven’t read the fine print on the poster.* But it caught my eye on Netflix because it’s a pun I used 20 years or so ago. In mine, we see a farmer in his living room, populated with ghostly chickens. The farmer isn’t inconvenienced. The chickens are just there. (the implied back story: the farmer built his home on an ancient chicken coop.) I’m guessing the film takes a different direction.
*I left the image small to save you the bother of deciding to skip the fine print.
When Less is More
This is an old one. It had a different caption when I first wrote it. I’d seen the moon referred to as a lesser body, so I wrote, “Harv loved to show off his lesser body.” I could rewrite it again as, “Few could deny that Harv had a lesser body.” One of my trials as a cartoonist and perfectionist — as in, always tweaking, not necessarily improving — is deciding on the final caption.
PSI CPR
My First Published Cartoon
I post this picture every once in awhile as inspiration for those who’d like to draw a cartoon, but believe they can’t.
I’m not saying that everyone can draw a cartoon. But when you look at the early material of many cartoonists — mine, anyway — you’d be reluctant to say with confidence, “This artist will definitely learn how to draw one day. More or less.”
I believe I earned seven dollars, fifty cents for this. I probably owe them change.
(note that my style has changed, but my signature has stayed the same. I remember working on that signature in elementary school. It took time for my skill to catch up with it.)
Gumby Puts the Pedal to the Clay
Amazon had a used copy for sale, ten dollars or so. A bargain. I’m betting that Poky (or Pokey?) is not only riding shotgun, but carrying one. via The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, one of my favorite book blogs.
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