Note: I live tweeted this session so in essence, by tweets are my notes. We’re starting up the panels and speakers for the day. First up: Stan Goldberg. Stan is also being inducted into NCS hall of fame tonight. Stan’s giving us a review of his early work in illustration/advertising and art school pieces. Started […]
Note: If you’re coming from Twitter and have been following my tweets all afternoon, much of this will be the same, but I did expand on some. Showing a photo of him at age 3 or 4 with a Dick Tracy comic book. In 1969 he became an assistant to tumbleweeds creator Tom Ryan. Tom […]
Bruce Handy talks to New Yorker comic editor Bob Mankoff for Vanity Fair about the ever numerous desert-island cartoons that have been generated over the decades: As the magazine’s cartoon editor, do you feel you have to set a higher bar for desert-island cartoons? Oh yeah, there’s always a sliding scale. Desert-island cartoons are like […]
The Internet at the hotel is horrible so I will be live Tweeting the announcements via texting. To learn who won the National Cartoonists Society winners tonight follow me on twitter: @dailycartoonist. I’ll post more notes and more details of the winners when I’m back to the hotel.
Michael Jantze is a professor at Savanna College of Art and Design, creator of The Norm, and founder of Jantze Studios where they create animated shorts. He talked about the history of cartooning (business/client/distribution) and how that is changing and why. Dave Kellett creator of Sheldon, and Drive talked about the webcomic model and John […]
Mark Simon is a cartoonist, producer, director, writer, lecturer and he talked about how to get free advertising through publicity. It was a HUGE amount of information in a little over an hour’s time. He outlined 16 ways to get increase your visibility. I’ll outline them here. 1. Pitch a story, not a product to […]