The Chicagoland Cartoonists Cabal has its largest meeting to date last night with four members attending! Woo-hoo!
Cartoonists Brian Diskin, Worth Gowell, Kyle Miller and myself met at Barnaby’s for a few really fun hours of cartoon talk!
Here’s Brian…
…Worth…
…and yours truly!
I’d forgotten about the camera until after Kyle had left, but next time I’ll take two pics of him and catch up.
Topics discussed included pinball and RPG gaming, scuba diving, diapers, and, oh yeah, cartoons!
There was a lot of talk about different possible venues for cartoons, how the web might affect cartooning as a whole, syndication, Flash, education, editors, freelance illustration… Whew!
Honestly, by the end I’d talked myself a little hoarse. It was great!
We also played a exquisite corpse:
Like I said, what a great time!
Thanks to everyone for coming out! (Special thanks to Kyle for the Nascar Pinball game!)
The Cabal is meeting again in May, and I’m gonna look for a new place to hold it again. Barnaby’s was OK, but our growing ranks need more room for ink slinging.
Also, I’d like to try out this game! (Hat tip to EffingComics, who’s more than welcome next time!)
Hope to see everyone and even a few more there!
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Actually, I sensed that you were about to bring the camera out and fled before my visage broke its delicate inner workings and made you sad. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
Sounds like a great time! LOVE those drawings! Much laughing out loud and spewing of coffee on the monitor.
I don't know why, but every time ya grab a camera, Anderson has that tiny TV pop outta the side of his head and he sticks a condiment bottle ("I'm listening to the ketchup ocean!") on his ear.
Strange guy, but a helluva cartoonist!
Thanks for making the arrangements and hosting — and for introducing me to exquisite corpse, Mark.
The sad thing, Mike, is that Anderson was making the moves on the ketchup all night long and still left without a phone number.
Thanks for the invite! I'm definitely going to make the trip out to the burbs for the May meet-up. Looking forward to it!
my son Rigel, 20 yrs old wants to be a cartoonist since in grade school but wasn't able to send him to good school where he wants to take up in Japan so he ends up taking up nursing, he is now on his 3rd year college. We will be grateful if you can teach him somehow some technique or anything that he can learn more from you. Thank you.
my son Rigel, 20 yrs old wants to be a cartoonist since in grade school but wasn't able to send him to good school where he wants to take up in Japan so he ends up taking up nursing, he is now on his 3rd year college. We will be grateful if you can teach him somehow some technique or anything that he can learn more from you. Thank you.
Wait a minute… There are good schools that teach cartooning?