Want to read? You know, Books. Like made of paper and all real and everything.
Check out Benoit Chartier and his work at Trode.
I met him at Charlotte HeroesCon, where he was selling his book Red Nexus (which has nothing to do with Red Necks, Us. But maybe I need to write a parody novel, huh? Huh?) and I got my copy there. Signed.
Anyhow, he’s got a new website. It’s good. Go see!
Long story short. Kenosha WI is cool. Dan’s cool. Dan’s got a book full of cartoons. Here’s your chance to get it.
Short story longer: I wrote the foreword to the book. That’s not actually a selling point, but my ego won’t let it pass without a mention.
I’m doing a thing at St. Jude Children’s Hospital. I’m lucky to be included in such a stellar group of well-known cartoonists, and yet, there I am. See if you can spot me in the poster.
Here’s the latest press release:
Come mix and mingle with the world’s best cartoonists, while supporting the mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The evening will feature Cartoonists Improv. Host cartoonists will be sitting at VIP tables. Enjoy festive food and spirits at this one-of-a-kind event. Featured hosts include Bill Morrison of The Simpsons, Steve McGarry of Minions, and Jeff Keane of Family Circus. The poster artwork really speaks for itself! Feel free to share this on your websites, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Anywhere you’d like works!
Nice, right? Share it around, willya? Thanks!
Also, click on the image!
It’s that time of year again! There seem to be competitions needing shirts and posters and… you get the idea.
Here’s one I did with a really outstanding art director-
I’ll be there. You guys ought to come, too! ‘Specially anyone who loves them some SUP and thinks you can go for THIRTY ONE miles! Yeah. Thirty one! Yikes.
You guys know I do a newspaper cartoon, right?
It’s called ‘The Buckets’, and if you’d like it in YOUR newspaper, then you should contact said paper and send them HERE to THIS LINK, and they can get all the information from the syndicate about running it.
It’s funny, it’s topical, and best of all, it’s monstrously inexpensive, if my monthly royalty checks are anything to go by. Newspapers listen to their readers- a little. They check through the comment sections under their online articles anyhow. So send ’em to Universal Syndicate and let ’em know The Buckets is a comic strip you’d like them to run. Mention advertising rates. That always perks ’em up.
Or, if you want your local paper to run Hubris? They can contact me here at this site through the ‘contact’ or ’email’ buttons. And so long as they let me put ‘hubriscomics.com’ on the cartoon for the title? They can run it for free. At least until a syndicate’s willing to sell it to them for me. Then it’s money, pal.
There you go- Seven Buckets a week for a smallish pittance, or Hubris as many times a week as they care to run it until they’ve burned through the archive, for FREE. Newspapers everywhere, rejoice.
I was a guest at this ‘fest a couple of years ago. It’s a really good time. It’s not a convention (or a Con, depending on your bent) and it’s not an academic conference like the Ohio State Festival of Cartoon Art. It’s much more fun and friendly. Kenosha isn’t a huge bustling metropolis, it’s a real town where you (if “you” are the amazing Anne Hambrock) can set up a thing like this and everyone gets to relax and enjoy it. Some people drive in from the area. Some people drive in from Chicago and its environs… I’ll be flying in, as the drive is a looooong one from Tennessee. If you can get yourself there, and you love ‘the newspaper comics’ and cartooning in general, then you really should go. If you can’t get yourself there, then support the Fest on this Indiegogo campaign and get some autographed stuff for being so cool about it.
Here’s the official info:
The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning is a 3 day festival, in Kenosha Wisconsin, from September 25th through September 27th of 2014. There will be live presentations, workshops, a gallery show, panel discussions, and community outreach by some of the nation’s top cartoonists. We are asking for a total of $10,000 – this amount will allow us to mount two spectacular gallery shows of original comic art, cover the expenses of the artists, pay for publicity materials and shipping of art for gallery shows, cover backer reward fulfillment, and provide catering for receptions whilst not having to charge admission.
Our AWESOME guest speakers for 2014 are: Jeff Keane of Family Circus, Denis Kitchen ofKitchen Sink Press, Lincoln Peirce of Big Nate, Rick Stromoski of Soup to Nutz, Todd Clark ofLola, Scott Stantis of Prickly City (also staff editorial cartoonist at The Chicago Tribune), Terri Libenson of The Pajama Diaries, Michael Schumacher author of Al Capp: A Life To The Contrary and Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life In Comics, and Paul Buhle comic historian and author of Comics In Wisconsin. And our panel moderator will be the amazing Tom Racine of Tall Tale Radio.
Don’t worry if you cannot attend the festival in person – we still have some VERY cool premiums for our backers in the way of original art and autographed posters and programs from the guest artists. New this year is a specially designed, limited edition, challenge coin – see image below. There will only be 100 of these available and when they’re gone they’re gone. So don’t dawdle if you want one 🙂 All rewards will be signed and therefore delivered after the conclusion of the festival.
We believe cartooning is a wicked cool artform and have dedicated this festival to providing opportunities for the comic reading public of all ages to meet the artists behind the laughter. But the festival can only remain free if we reach our fundraising goal!
With the festival in its fourth year, we are seeking Indiegogo funding because, while we have some stalwart donors and supporters, those donations don’t come close to funding our whole budget.
One of the wonderful things about crowd funding is how affordable it can be. If we can get 500 people to donate $20 – we are there! So never think that small contributions don’t matter! And we have some exciting stretch goals if we are lucky enough to exceed our $10,000 mark.
NOTE ABOUT REWARDS: Indiegogo will only allow 20 reward levels at a time – we have a few more than that available and will post them when a particular reward level is “sold out”. Also, you can donate more than once if you are interested in multiple rewards – you can mix and match and can also increase your donation at any time during the campaign.
Heyyyy- here’s an animated webcomic that actually show you something cool about the real world-
As opposed to Hubris, which is only about human behavior told through hyperbolic metaphor.
Click on it and wait for the animation to gear up all the way:
I get to see Bill Holbrook now and again. Bill’s one of those superheroes of cartooning- syndicated, and early adapter to webcomics- doing THREE daily comic strips for many years now. I got a bug the other day and doodled up his cute Dethany character dressed up for Gothmas. Here’s the art. And you can click HERE to go to the fan art page on his site!
Extra points if you remember what sitcom “Son, Tippy was a Spud” came from.
So, Lonnie Easterling does this webcomic called ‘Spud Comics’. It’s on his site with some fun Blog entries.
(Now you have to think about whether you’re a comics-only reader or if you take the time to look at the blog material, too. If you’re reading this, you’re at least a partial blog reader, or you wouldn’t be this far down the page, now, wouldya?)
Lonnie’s one of the troopers of the webcomics world. He’s a husband, father and hard worker who comes home from a long hard day, helps the kids with their homework, spends some quality time with his understanding wife, then disappears into whatever corner it is that webcartoonists disappear into until late at night.
I dunno about Lonnie, but one of the things I miss most since I committed to making sure you guys get your Hubris three times a week is going to bed at the same time as my wife.
So, slip on over to Spudcomics.com and read some cartoons, click some links and enjoy. And if you need it, his link is now down the left hand side of the page with some other fine, fine reading materials…
I thought I might catch you guys up on the Snuffy Smith trip.
Lonnie’s FB photo of the bunch of us, kindly taken by our server with Lonnie’s phone or camera, I can never remember which any more. The sooner everything is one little device (A Tricorder, say) the better.
From far left, and going clockwise- John Henderson, Lonnie Easterling, John and Karen Rose, Guy Gilchrist (in THE hat), Kevin Williams (in A hat), me and Bob Kimball met up at a Nashville eatery before John’s book signing. It was fun.
You might as well get to know the people in the photo. We’ll start, I guess, with John.
HERE is his portfolio site.
and if you click HERE, you get his webcomic. We already know you read webcomics, so you might need to go there and add him into your list, right?
John’s a good guy. He does art for game designs. The freelance life is not for the faint of heart, or for those who panic anyhow. His cartoons and art say more about him than I can, so peruse his sites and keep an eye out for him, willya?
For those of us who aren’t any better at bookmarking and returning to things than I am, I’ve put John’s webcomic in the links list over there down the left hand side of the page. For all of you who are surprised there’s a Links List down the left hand side of the page… you need to examine all the little buttons and extras I throw on here for ya!
And in a couple of days, we’ll discuss Lonnie and his stuff!
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