Don’t forget to pre-order your copy of Spot the Frog!
Technorati Tags: cartoons, comic strips
Month: March 2006
Disney’s Orgy Pad
OK, so that title is a little misleading, but it’s a good way to draw your attention to a fascinating duo of Disney links:
Wally Wood’s Disney Orgy (See the art)
Technorati Tags: animation, cartoonists, cartoons, Disney
Another Editorial Cartoonist Gone
Fellow Chicago area cartoonist Stacy Curtis was unceremoniously escorted out of his job at the NWI Times yesterday.
Curtis was allowed only his car keys, coat and what he brought in with him that day. This weekend he’ll be allowed back under the supervision of two managers to collect any other personal belongings.
LIke Kirk Anderson’s before him, I guarantee this paper spends more on executive office plant watering services than it did on Curtis’ insightful local perspective.
In an era where readership is down and graphic novels sales continue to rise you’d figure the whole damn paper would be told in cartoons!
Honestly maybe it’s for the best. The newspaper in general is slowly dying, and although this will sound callous, maybe it’s better to get out now.
I was “reorganized” out of a job a few years ago and it allowed me the opportunity to refocus and really get down to my life’s work. (I’d like to clarify that this in no way gives any credit to the dirtbag management who actually hired someone to let me go.)
My advice to Stacy is to take the weekend and wallow in it. It sucks. A lot! Then, Monday morning, sit down at your desk, draw some more amazing stuff, work the phones and create your legacy. You’ve got the chops man, screw the NWI Times.
Later – E&P had this to say…
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Warmest Thanks
So I moved to a better hosting company over the weekend, and although things went exceedingly smoothly, I thought it best to check out a few parts of the site across a large sampling of computers and browsers.
After sending out an email to my daily cartoon and blog syndication subscribers, I was flooded with emails testing various pages of the site. (OK, it didn’t hurt that I offered a free three-pack of Andertoons Hot Sauce to the first three responders.)
Yep. You read that right; Andertoons Hot Sauce!
Every year I send my top clients a thank you gift, and this year, as I’m a big hot sauce guy, it was custom hot sauce. Three flavors: Devilishly Hot, Cilantro Lime, and Peach Pepper. Each with a cartoon and my contact info on the label.
Then we moved to the new Anderson compound and all of that info was no longer any good. So, I’m looking for ways to give away hot sauces, and I was pleasantly surprised at the response from my readers.
You always hope that people like your work, but the scores of people writing in to help, and maybe get some mislabeled Andertoons product, was just fantastic.
So, without any further adieu, here are the winners:
Kay Grosinske, Beverly Mills and Dilip Gohil! (You can check an actual screen shot of my email below to verify their quick-draw emailing.)
Thanks again to everyone who helped out, and to the winners, your sauce is on the way!
(BTW, for anyone still reading this, be the first to email me at the website and mention this blog entry, and I’ll send you a free bottle of Andertoons Devilishly Hot Sauce!)
NOTE – Congrats to Adrian for nabbing the bottle! Who new my hot sauce would move this fast?!
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