Eight cartoonists launch The Cartoonist Studio

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1. Jason Nocera

   Let us know when there’s more to look at than just “coming soon”

2. Mike Cope

   Jason, did you try selecting their individual profiles? Looks pretty cool to me!!

3. Rick Kirkman

   The site is actually in its “soft launch” phase–basically public testing.

4. Rodd Perry

   Is that an erasable ball point pen on Rick’s desk? Not cool. But the site is a great idea. Strength in numbers.

5. David Jones

   GOOD LUCK! This could be really great for the industry as well!!! Time us gag cartoonist got taken seriously… If you can take us seriously….

6. Rick Kirkman

   @Rodd

   Don’t know what you’re looking at, but I don’t have any erasable ball point pens. At least none that I know of. Did you hover your mouse over it to see if there’s an explanation?

7. Rodd Perry

   It’s the one with the purple finger bumper thingy, but looking at it again I think it might be a mechanical pencil with a thick lead.

8. Rick Kirkman

   Ding! Ding! Ding!

   Right, you are. It’s a Caran d’Ache pencil holder for 3mm graphite leads. I use graphite now for my daily finished drawings.

   Erasable ballpoint….why I oughta’…

9. Stephanie McMillan

   Nice website, and a great idea!

10. BOB QUICK

    …and I thought my area was a mess.

11. B.J. Dewey

    Now that I know that “thingy” is a “Caran d?Ache pencil holder for 3mm graphite leads,” I can move on to bigger things and say I think this kind of site is a great idea because it should (besides promote these cartoonists) get the public more involved in the world of cartooning.

    BUT I also hope it might at some point go beyond the cartoonists themselves and get into cartooning in general. These eight longtime pros could maybe explain the value of cartooning to the public, where it’s going, why it will survive, what it might become and should become. Eventually expanding beyond just eight cartoonists should add interest.

    Good luck!

    B.J.

12. Tony Piro

    I had to click through, if only just to see all the different desktops.

    I didn’t see one crow quill! Very disappointed!

13. Tom Wood

    Where are the 3D modeling gloves? You know, the ones that you wear with the virtual reality glasses and use to model characters out of virtual putty?

14. R Pyle

    It’s nice, but it suffers from some formatting problems. Easily fixed.

15. Tom Richmond

    Tony- Once my page is up you’ll see plenty of crow quills and ink stains.

16. Tony Piro

    Thanks Tom, I highly approve!

17. Garey Mckee

    I wanted Jeff Keane’s studio to be a giant circle. I was a little disappointed LOL.

18. Starr Da Mauer

    I think this is a GREAT idea for a website! Aspiring
    cartoonists like me enjoy seeing behing-the-scenes
    stuff about professional cartoonists…..it’s fun, and
    you never know if we might learn something helpful,
    like about different pens to use or other technical
    tips, or just learning about your creative process,
    in general. So, thanks for creating this site!

19. David Jones

    I love the idea of letting us amateurs display our strips!!!

    THANKS!!!!!

20. Anne Hambrock

    John Hambrock, Chuck Ayers, Jan Eliot, Tom Richmond, Jenny Campbell, and Brian Crane have all joined the group and their studio tour pages and bios are up.

    http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/Default.aspx

21. Rich Diesslin

    Good luck. Every venture is one step closer to viable business models outside of just newspaper syndication!