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Old Jokes are the WorstBy: Cornelius - 27/07/2009 14:46:55 - Comments: 6 I love our collection of vintage cartoons. Most of them are from the nineteenth century, many of them are brilliant pieces of artwork, and they are all amazing evocations of a lost world. However while some of them might be considered humorous I don't find any of them actually intentionally funny, and I would be surprised if any one has laughed at them in the way they were intended for nearly 100 years. In their time though they would have been hilarious, so what happened?Cartoonists in publicBy: Franklin Price - 17/07/2009 17:10:03 - Comments: 4 I came across this animation today and it's just brilliant. Lazarus LionBy: Cornelius - 04/06/2009 15:44:44 - Comments: 2 I don't think if most modern marketeers were looking to promote a sugar syrup they would select as their logo a festering dead lion carcass infested with insects, but that is what the Victorians chose to go with, Super PowersBy: Cornelius - 27/05/2009 17:46:43 - Comments: 0 Someone told me yet another conspiracy theory the other day. I didn't bother listening to any of the details (it may have been about 9 11), essentially, because it was a conspiracy theory. My Yellow Brick RoadBy: Franklin Price - 20/05/2009 17:33:20 - Comments: 0 This is my first Blog entry so I decided to play it safe and chat about myself...Poacher Turned GamekeeperBy: Cornelius - 13/05/2009 15:51:09 - Comments: 1 The vast majority of cartoonists don't make enormous sums of money. There are a few, both in the UK and US, who are very wealthy, but that probably represents a few percent of the total number of talented professional artists working in the industry. FashionBy: Cornelius - 02/05/2008 12:43:46 - Comments: 5 We got sent some cartoons today by an older American cartoonist. I won’t reveal his name, but his work appeared in all the major cartoon publications in the 70s and 80s notably The New Yorker and Playboy. History and CartoonsBy: Cornelius - 19/12/2007 15:41:36 - Comments: 3 I have a very geeky confession. Clashing swordsBy: Thalia - 19/12/2007 14:54:53 - Comments: 0 At the start of my fourth week here at CartoonStock I finally steal a few of these precious pre-Christmas minutes to put fingertips to keyboard for the sake of the company blog. Impressions of working at CartoonStockBy: Zeus - 08/11/2007 14:11:48 - Comments: 2 So I've been working at CartoonStock for a little over 3 months and I've decided to share some of my impressions about what it's like to work for CartoonStock.Growing or Shrinking?By: Cornelius - 24/10/2007 17:18:52 - Comments: 3 I haven't posted for a while now, but I have noticed when looking around the forums and chatting to cartoonists that there is still a feeling amongst some that the cartoon market is shrinking. As it seems fairly self evident that the market is actually growing I thought it worth giving my two cents worth (that's a penny for my thoughts at current exchange rates)."Hire an Artist"By: Cloven Hoof - 24/10/2007 17:17:42 - Comments: 0 I know I'm supposed to 'big' CartoonStock up, being a valued employee, but I am genuinely impressed with the long awaited new look of the website. As a freelance web designer myself, I thought it worth mentioning some of the positive attributes of the new look and now that the new "Hire an Artist" pages up and running, I can say that they definitely look much cleaner and have a much more up to date feel to them.Cartoons for BlogsBy: Isambard - 24/10/2007 17:16:14 - Comments: 1 Wow... December and January seem to have been choc-full of things to do which is why you haven't seen much action on this blog recently. Today's blog will be about blogs. Or more precisely what use of our cartoons is permitted on blogs. The media scene had changed immeasurably since CartoonStock was set up 8 1/2 years ago when sales of cartoons were virtually all for use in hard copy print publications or in presentations. The Media CalendarBy: Dancing Queen - 24/10/2007 17:12:56 - Comments: 0 Today is the 18th December. Only a week to go until Christmas. I was working away at the moderating this morning, humming Frosty the Snowman and taking care not to dislodge my flashing reindeer antlers, when I realised there were still many Christmas cartoons coming in. It's clear our merry cartoonists are feeling equally as festive, their creative juices flowing as they embrace the seasonal atmosphere. But now, so close to the big day, will these cartoons actually be used before next year?The Christmas RushBy: Isambard - 24/10/2007 17:11:01 - Comments: 1 Like many businesses we're absolutely run off our feet at the moment dealing with pre-Christmas orders, which is why you haven't seen much activity on this blog recently. I've kind of taken it for granted over the years that everything gets busy in November and December. But why should it be? A designer friend of mine, who's also snowed under, hit the nail on the head yesterday when he said "everyone makes Christmas a deadline". Keeping the client happyBy: Cornelius - 24/10/2007 17:09:05 - Comments: 0 I have a confession to make. When I starting out as a cartoonist many years ago I thought clients might think that drawing cartoons was 'easy' (it's not by the way) and 'simple' (again, not true) and that if I got work to them too quickly they would think they would not be getting their money's worth and wouldn't know quite what they were paying for.What will they think of next?By: Isambard - 24/10/2007 17:07:37 - Comments: 1 I seem to spend quite a lot of my time looking at new ideas on the web. I try to imagine how they could be applied to the business of cartooning in an attempt to make sure CartoonStock isn't suddenly overtaken by the "next big thing". Yesterday's Web 2.0 revelation was Zopa.com. I'd never heard of it before so I'm going to bang on about it a bit - apologies to those of you who may already be familiar with it. Creative ResourcingBy: Capitao - 24/10/2007 17:06:08 - Comments: 0 When not vexing Cornelius with discussions about the nature of creativity, I mainly spend my days (and even nights, when things are really busy) at CartoonStock juggling the resources that enable us to continue happily delivering the services that we do. Much of this invariably involves counting the pennies, but there are other resources involved too, creativity and people among them. Some resources are harder to quantify than others; there is a saying in HR these days that troublecomes on two legs. People are not always as easy to manage as say, numbers, as it is not always possible to predict what they are going to do. CrowdsourcingBy: Isambard - 24/10/2007 17:04:47 - Comments: 1 A lot's been made of CNN asking for submissions of political cartoons. Many cartoonists have complained about CNN's attempts to acquire content free of charge, not only that but to try and get cartoonists to hand over all licensing and usage rights to their creations. Crowdsourcing, as it's known (getting millions of members of the public to provide intellectual property very cheaply rather than paying more to a professional "expert") is becoming a popular use for the web. News sites ask for members of the public to send in mobile phone photos of accidents or newsworthy events, YouTube gathers video content from all and sundry. Wikipedia gets all it's knowledge from you and me. Lexical MattersBy: Cornelius - 24/10/2007 17:01:49 - Comments: 1 This may sound odd considering I have been working with cartoons for over 15 years, but I'm embarrassed to say that after all that time I'm still not sure what the correct terms or words are for all the different styles and types of cartoons that exist in the world. Thankfully this embarrassing secret is lessened by the fact that when I talk to other professional cartoonists they don't seem to have much of a clue either. Terminology is important to any industry. Management consultants are able to charge much higher fees for their ability to state the obvious, because they state it in a way the rest of us find incomprehensible. Cartoonists are generally self taught and work away from each other and don't always feel confident about the terms they use, but if they aren't confident of the correct terms who will be? |
