How often have you had a cartoon rejected, only to see someone else get the same idea published? It happens all the time and usually purely by chance because, after all, great minds think alike. But it cuts both ways. You can be sure that someone is shouting at the internet or apoplectic with rage […]
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I’m not a lawyer, but…
Like I suppose a lot of people must do, I just started sending unsolicited drawings to magazines in the hope that they would publish them (which to be fair, after 40 years of trying, they did). But then it emerged that my most important client publication has some very firm views about what else I […]
That Clip Studio … How’s that Work Then? … Fill Tools
Fill Tools First appeared in Issue 542 of The Jester, June 2020 Like most painting and drawing software, Clip Studio comes equipped with a Paint Bucket Fill tool, useful for filling areas of your illustration with flat colour. Clip Studio’s paint bucket (or Fill tool as it’s referred to in Clip Studio) has a […]
My Antiques Roadshow Adventure
By Mark Warby “Try not to move – we don’t want to have to nail your feet to the ground,” I was told, one day last summer. This wasn’t a threat of imminent torture, though – merely a joke to help put me at ease, when I found myself in front of the TV cameras […]
A Not-Quite-How-To Guide On Not Making Money As A Cartoonist
SORRY, EDITOR SAYS NO! By Pete Songi It’s 4.55am, it’s press day on that architectural magazine title you’re employed at, but all you can think about for the last few broken hours of sleep is the gag. That speech from Theresa May, that episode of Question Time, that toon that is swirling around and around […]
Lakes International Comic Arts Festival 2019
We’ve been heading to Kendal for the Lakes International Comics Art Festival for a few years now. Our stand, thanks to the handy hands of Rich Skipworth, has become a wall of members’ merchandise and cartoon prints. We always encourage members to attend and every year one or two new faces turn up and join […]
