Even though I've been bad about posting lately, to my surprise, I still get visitors! On the other hand, I never get comments.... If I didn't have a website tracker I wouldn't even know that I have visitors. : O
I would love to hear from all of you that visit as to what you think. Do you like what I'm posting? What would you like to see more of? What don't you like? Do you want to see more cartoons? Do you want to learn more about cartooning?
In other words, input is good. All artists like to hear what you think of their work, so let me hear it, good or bad. : )
Laters!
Geoff
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Just because I haven't posted in awhile
Here's an illustration featuring my Keelhauled characters. It's the first full-blown illustration I did in Illustrator a couple months ago. Since then, I've been immersing myself in Illustrator and have gotten a pretty good grasp on it since then.
I hope you like it!
Yo ho ho!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Golf cartoons
Just because I've been lazy about posting lately, here's a few golf cartoons I did last week. Enjoy!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Syndication: The childhood dream
The conversation about becoming a syndicated cartoonist, and whether it's even a realistic dream these days, comes up every now and then on some of the cartoonists forums I frequent, and it's probably the hardest part of being a cartoonist to deal with these days. The reason being, is that the golden age of newspaper cartooning is dead and gone, never to return.
Newspaper circulations are down dramatically as more and more people turn to the internet for their news and entertainment. Not only that, but newspapers themselves have been shrinking the comic strips to the size of postage stamps more and more each year, or cutting comics altogether.
But even with all that doom and gloom, the dream is hard to let go.
The reason being, any working cartoonist today that grew up reading the comics section spread out in the middle of the livingroom floor, doing their best to copy Peanuts or Hagar the Horrible, while dreaming about one day becoming a syndicated cartoonist, and being rich and famous, has had this dream at one time or another.
As I've become older, and have worked as a professional for about 18 years now, I've learned from those that are syndicated about the realities of what it's really like to be a syndicated cartoonist, writing and drawing 365 cartoons a year, no matter whether you're sick, don't feel funny, or regardless of what's going on in your personal life.... you have to produce. And those that become rich and famous are very far and few between!
And if you think producing 365 funny cartoons a year is easy, I can tell you now, it's not easy.
But you know what, it's still hard to let go of that dream. Because it's that dream I had when I was a kid. It was that dream that drove me to spend hours and hours drawing while other kids were playing outside, it's what drove me to read every drawing, cartooning, anatomy, writing, and how-to book I could lay my hands on! In other words, it's that dream that drove me to become a cartoonist.
But what do you do when your abilities finally catch up to where you're finally good enough to pursue your dream, but achieving the dream, at least the way you dreamed about it, is no longer possible?... Or metamorphed into something completely different from what you were working toward?
For me, I plan to keep pursuing syndication because that was, as still is my dream. And I would like to be syndicated at least once, even for a short time, so I can at least say I achieved my dream. Then, I'll rework my dreams to fit todays world.
And that's where the internet comes in, but that's another post.......
Edit tweak: This post was inspired by a cartooning buddy of mine, the incredibly talented Mike Cope, who is sending out his latest creation to the syndicates. All the best Mike, I wish you every success! You can see his blog here where he talks about his submission.
Newspaper circulations are down dramatically as more and more people turn to the internet for their news and entertainment. Not only that, but newspapers themselves have been shrinking the comic strips to the size of postage stamps more and more each year, or cutting comics altogether.
But even with all that doom and gloom, the dream is hard to let go.
The reason being, any working cartoonist today that grew up reading the comics section spread out in the middle of the livingroom floor, doing their best to copy Peanuts or Hagar the Horrible, while dreaming about one day becoming a syndicated cartoonist, and being rich and famous, has had this dream at one time or another.
As I've become older, and have worked as a professional for about 18 years now, I've learned from those that are syndicated about the realities of what it's really like to be a syndicated cartoonist, writing and drawing 365 cartoons a year, no matter whether you're sick, don't feel funny, or regardless of what's going on in your personal life.... you have to produce. And those that become rich and famous are very far and few between!
And if you think producing 365 funny cartoons a year is easy, I can tell you now, it's not easy.
But you know what, it's still hard to let go of that dream. Because it's that dream I had when I was a kid. It was that dream that drove me to spend hours and hours drawing while other kids were playing outside, it's what drove me to read every drawing, cartooning, anatomy, writing, and how-to book I could lay my hands on! In other words, it's that dream that drove me to become a cartoonist.
But what do you do when your abilities finally catch up to where you're finally good enough to pursue your dream, but achieving the dream, at least the way you dreamed about it, is no longer possible?... Or metamorphed into something completely different from what you were working toward?
For me, I plan to keep pursuing syndication because that was, as still is my dream. And I would like to be syndicated at least once, even for a short time, so I can at least say I achieved my dream. Then, I'll rework my dreams to fit todays world.
And that's where the internet comes in, but that's another post.......
Edit tweak: This post was inspired by a cartooning buddy of mine, the incredibly talented Mike Cope, who is sending out his latest creation to the syndicates. All the best Mike, I wish you every success! You can see his blog here where he talks about his submission.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Another cartoonist blog?!
I know, like there aren't enough cartoonist blogs out there already. But I figured the world needed at least one more, mine!The biggest reason I created this blog is because I wanted a place to throw up doodles and sketches and work from freelance gigs, or whatever I happen to be working on at the time that doesn't necessarily fit in with my regular website. But at the same time, it wouldn't be a cartoonist blog without cartoons, so don't worry, there will be plenty of those as well. Old and new work alike.
I don't know how often I'll update since I'm pretty new to the blogoshpere, but I'll try to update regularly.
To get started, here's a couple t-shirt designs I just finished this week. One is for Performance Radiator, featuring Prickly the Cactus, their mascot, dressed as Elvis, singing to a bunch of skeletons of other radiator companies that are defunct or soon-to-be defunct.
The second T-shirt design is for a travel writer buddy of mine Kelsey Timmerman who writes humorous travel articles that are hilarious! You can read his work at www.whereamiwearing.com. He'll be using the t-shirt to give away as prizes for various contests.Laters!
Geoff
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