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	<description>Helping to turn a drawing hobby into a cartooning profession</description>
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		<title>The Victorian Bushfires: My Day as a Chaplain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the long delay in posting. Health and other reasons have meant it simply hasn&#8217;t happened.
But thank you to everybody who has contacted me to see if I&#8217;m ok with respect to the tragic fires that are still happening in my part of Australia. While the fires were close to my home (about 15 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2009/02/12/the-victorian-bushfires-my-day-as-a-chaplain/</link>
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		<title>Friday Feature Artist: ???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cupboard is bare&#8230;
If you haven&#8217;t been the FFA yet and would like to, send me an email. And if you have sent me an email and haven&#8217;t appeared yet, I&#8217;ve lost your stuff!! Send it again!
Have a great weekend everybody!
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		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/08/01/friday-feature-artist-3/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Ways to be a Jerk Cartoonist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re following along with my top ten lists, then you should probably check out this top 5 list over at Andertoons.
Hilarious, but true!
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		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/30/top-5-ways-to-be-a-jerk-cartoonist/</link>
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		<title>Tip 8: Become Business Minded (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The business side of the cartooning craft was so important that it took two tips to cover it all. Nearly two years after writing this post originally, I find that the business end of freelancing is taking up more time than I thought. But it has paid off for me as I get paid more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/29/tip-8-become-business-minded-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Friday Feature Artist: Peter Naismith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NAME:Peter Naismith
 AGE: 52
 LOCATION: Wodonga, Australia
 SITE URL: http://www.thenutbankfiles.com
How long have you been drawing cartoons?
I started drawing cartoons twenty years ago and had a six month period where i got stuck into it but working shift work and having 5 kids under 6 really made it difficult to get some continuity in it.
What made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/25/friday-feature-artist-peter-naismith/</link>
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		<title>Are YOU the next Friday Feature Artist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just about at the end of the queue for the Friday Feature Artist, so if you haven&#8217;t put your hand up a for a turn yet - let me know!!
I&#8217;ll send you the questions. You send me the answers. You&#8217;ll appear on Chewing Pencils and be launched towards fame and fortune.
Maybe&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/24/are-you-the-next-friday-feature-artist-2/</link>
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		<title>Tip 7: Become Business Minded (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Recently I was discussing with a non-cartoonist some of the aspects about drawing for money. It seemed that the idea of cartooning being a business was totally foreign to them. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it just drawing silly pictures?&#8221;, was what they thought!
Of course, drawing is part of what we do, but like everybody who works for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/23/tip-7-become-business-minded-part-1/</link>
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		<title>How Important is a Website to a Cartoonist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the twelve years I&#8217;ve been freelancing,  virtually all of my work has come through my website (www.mattglover.com) in some way, shape or form. Sometimes a client has been searching on Google for a cartoonist and has landed on my site. Other times they have seen a cartoon of mine somewhere that has my web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/17/how-important-is-a-website-to-a-cartoonist/</link>
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		<title>Tip 6: Look For Niche Markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tip #6:- Look for the niche markets.
I&#8217;ll say this just once - if you want to make some money from your cartoons, forget about the newspapers!! Yes, the papers are a potential market, perhaps the most obvious market, but the chances of you ending up there are slim.
Sorry to be so blunt, but they are!
So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/15/tip-6-look-for-niche-markets/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Reminder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I forgot to add the right link to my facebook profile page in the post below.
Here &#8217;tis: Matt&#8217;s Facebook Page
Be my friend&#8230;.please!
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		<link>http://www.chewingpencils.com/2008/07/14/facebook-reminder/</link>
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