Got sucked into some stupid PBS British Jane Austin thing while on the treadmill at the gym. I ended up crying when the main girl got together with her true love. I hoped people thought I was sweating really hard. Totally embarrassing.
I’m about the least organized person around but I’m trying to organize my piles of original art to start selling some.
My New Yorker stuff can be bought at the cartoonbank.com.
My recent weekly cartoons I’m selling for $100-$200. Drop me a line if you’re interested.
A bunch of my single panel comics are an act-i-vate.com.
I just posted new cartoons up at www.act-i-vate.com. Check ‘em out. Leave a comment.
BOOM! and I are banging away on the “I Thought You Would Be Funnier” book. It’s getting good press. Ask and your local shop will carry. Check out Chip’s interview.
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/02/talking-to-chip-mosher-about-boom-town/
I loved it. Just saw Das Rheingold - an opera based on Wagner’s Ring Cycle and Bay Watch. It was too dark to draw which was frustrating because everyone was in their bathing suits.
The event reminded me a bit of the Star Trek in the Park I saw last year. Like Star Trek, enthusiasm and cleverness carried it a long way. Also like Star Trek, the referenced material adds a lot. Funny that silly old shows carry such weight. Weird that remake-movies fail where these shows succeed. The show was great.
http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2010/02/baywatch_meets_wagner_at_opera.html
New cartoons up on www.act-i-vate.com… check ‘em out and please comment. They’re a bunch of the New Yorker rejects/submissions.
Yesterday? Maybe the day before. I’d forgotten ’till the last minute that I was slated to do a photo shoot for an artist-in-their-studio book so I was up all night working. At least it’s authentic - me tired and my house a mess. His pictures are great.
http://www.theshutterclick.com
Here’s my drawing of Kevin taking a picture of me in my studio - the coffee shop.
Nice when one’s pet peeves gets recognized.
I’m going to start selling some original art. Over the next week or two I’ll be putting together a catalog of cartoons and prices.
If there’s anything in particular anyone wants feel free to drop me a line (email or LJ or facebook) to ask about specific prices.
The New Yorker cartoons are selling on the New Yorker website for $1900 each. I’ll be selling ones that haven’t run for $50-$100.
Too Much Coffee Man pages are generally $200-$300. Various How to Be Happy cartoons are $75.
Not sure what I’m selling the Onion cartoons for yet….
I can also print out cartoons for $20.
Sad for me to let go of art but having someone appreciate the art is nicer than having it gather dust in my house.
really weird to read a website like the dailycartoonist.com for my various bits of cartoon news then suddenly see your own name there…. sort of like unexpectedly seeing yourself on tv (which has happened too). Cool plug. Cool site. Check it out.
And if that’s not enough - here’s a magazine thing I’m in.
http://www.lordshaper.com/?p=1932
I like this idea but it probably works better as an Onion headline.
Always breaks my heart when I don’t sell a cartoon (most weeks). This is an obvious cartoon once done but I’ve never seen it before.
New cartoons up on ACT-I-VATE.
This week’s set of my New Yorker cartoon submissions are solid. 3 good jokes in there (out of 10). I almost look forward to hearing Thursday they were rejected so I can post them. This week’s NY’er meeting was put off - so I have to wait a little bit longer. 
The book design work at BOOM! is coming along well. Chip is doing amazing PR work and keeping it all on track too. The title, “I Thought You Would Be Funnier” has taken funny double meaning. First, the obvious, a woman who’s feeling disappointed in bed, post-coital, with a clown. What sort of funny did she expect anyway? What is funny sex? What would sex with a clown be like? Then there’s the fact that the book is a collection of cartoons the New Yorker rejected. The cartoons weren’t funny enough. The second meaning isn’t totally true. It isn’t always the funny that makes the cut. There are about 20 cartoons in every issue (give or take). Half of those go to regulars (Gahan Wilson, S. Gross, BEK, Noth, etc). 10 spots for the rest of us. Mankoff decides what balances the humor; 1 relationship, 1 job, 1 therapist, 1 travel, etc. There’s also the ‘what he had for lunch’ factor - a random sometimes something’s funny and sometimes it’s not. It just depends on one’s mood or what one had for lunch. I’m just guessing on this too. Lord knows what really goes on.
This is really cool. Ariel Gore got a review in the New York Times! She’ll be reading at Powell’s downtown in Portland on Wed.
Finished up today’s work. It’s a corny - but I do like drawing my cat.
Busting ass on a bunch of various projects. If I stay on top of things it will be a good year.
