Chewing Pencils

Freelancing is a lonely business. that’s one of the reasons that I intentionally limit my drawing to part time so I can operate in the ‘real world’ for much of my week as well.
I’ve been freelancing for eleven years now, and not once have I met a client face to face. I’ve spoken to a […]

This week, another artist from across the Tasman shares his insite in the business of cartooning. David Fletcher’s strip The Politician has been running since 1983 and is syndicated to New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Kenya, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland.
Don’t tell anyone, but I think we have a real cartoonist on our hands….
NAME: David Fletcher
AGE: 55
LOCATION: […]

Every so often I like to sit back and take stock of how the cartooning business is going. How much work is coming in, who hasn’t paid for it and what action, if any, I need to be following up on.
The first three months of this year were incredibly dry and slow. For perhaps the […]

My apologies for no Friday Feature Artist this week. Deadlines have once again limited the blogging…which is probably a good thing given that my car has packed it in and is costing a fortune to fix!
Anyway, copyright has been in the news this week in Australia as one of our top cartoonists received a ‘cease […]