The Daily Cartoonist

Sounds great. I gotta look into subscribing.

I always looked forward to my subscription to Cartoonist PROfiles. It was always such a great read. Before I had internet access, Cartoonist PROfiles was my entry into what the syndicated world of comics was like, an the creative minds behind some of my favorite features and newer features that I would later discover online.

I hope Stay Tooned is even close to as good as Cartoonist PROfiles was, and I hope amateurs and pro’s alike get behind it.

I’d subscribe.

I really enjoyed getting Cartoonist PROfiles when I was just starting. It always looked handmade (you could see the paste ups)which gave it a certain homey feel.

Ditto. Great publication.

I’ve been corresponding with John about his endeavor. We’re going to try to meet up at DragonCon this weekend. My first advice about publishing a comics magazine was for him to lie down until the feeling went away, but he’s serious! I wish him the best of luck.

Thank you all for your positive responses! Charles, I got your e-mail. Eric, I promise “Stay Tooned!” will be “close to as good” as “CP” because it’s one of my models. Admittedly, I have my own ideas about how it should look – wait’ll ya’ll see my first cover! I don’t know about it having “a homey feel” (Brian), but I have to say you definately won’t see paste-up lines. Tom, I would like to treat you to lunch!

John, let us know as soon as your website is up! I look forward to subscribing! I miss what CP offered…no pressure;)

John, good luck – I look forward to subscribing when it’s up and running.

I’m an 84 year old has been who is always looking to get back in the business. Haven’t read a cartoon publication since 1953. Would love to see yours. Joe Gillen

Hello, Joe. I hope you stay around and talk to us here! I know that I for one would love to hear your stories about the biz.

I WAS A C.P. SUBSCRIBER,I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN YOUR MAGAZINE , LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU ARE READY TO TAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND GIVE ME INFO.
THANKS, DON

I was just wondering about this myself. It is November, you know, and I was wondering when the first issue will be published. I’m really hoping that this won’t fall through…do you have any new information, John? Charles?

Well I hope this new magazine will be a success like Witty World . I don’t know much about Cartoonist Profile since I have been drawing for only some 50 or more years and haven’t had much contact with the stuff out there for cartoonists . I mainly draw my stuff and give it away . I spend 2-4 hours on a drawing an end up giving it to some kid or a friend . I’ve given away over 3000 drawings in the past years . I still draw for the fun of it . I make up all my stuff and either throw it away or stick it in a folder to make copies of or give them away to friends . I subscribe to cartoon Oppertunities an give Bill Keough alot of my sketches and he put some of them on the cover of his newsletter and in the cartoonist of the month . I have’t sold any work since 1972 when I got 20 dollars for a cartoon I sold to a teacher that wanted to get back at another teacher for something she did . Now I send stuff to my sister and to Reed and Taylor in Fargo North Dakota on Broadway Ave . Donna the store manager sells my stuff I guess or gives it away I don’t know but anyway it is good advertising for my work . I do alot of advertising art free. I have done Kobes Chinese food and before that I did a Gyro food store and my stuff ended up in New york and India . I do some drawing in fast food places and in resturants they even framed some of my work in Morton Illinois and Peoria . Bob Evans even has some of my work in some of their stores in the kitchen area .
My work looks like the style of Robert Crumb a little but I have a wide style range so I can do many different types of drawings . I’ve been to five colleges an have a B.A. degree
in Art . I got tired of school and quit in 72′ and took up printing at a check printing company . for 20 years and when it folded I became a janitor for another 15 or more years. I am retired now an sit around an draw and go to the mall an walk around . So that is what I do now . Ken