Spot The Cartoonist

Don't forget - I also run a blog called Spot The Cartoonist. It is a site devoted exclusively to publicity for cartoonist appearances. The appearances can be book signings, lectures, workshops, Q & A, exhibits of work with opening receptions - you name it.


It turns out cartoonists are running around appearing all over the place so, if you are a fan - (or fellow cartoonist interested in connecting with other cartoonists) this is the site for you to find out if anyone is appearing near you. The site has many ways to find appearances - there are tabs for monthly schedules, cartoonist name, and exhibit name, and also categories listings for geographical region.


You can keep up with all the current postings by subscribing to the blog's feed, going to the Spot The Cartoonist facebook page, or following me on Twitter.


I am posting new things all the time - sometimes several times a day during a busy week - so subscribing to the feed is probably your best bet for staying caught up.


So - if you are a cartoonist with an appearance to plug, check out the site and email me with your details and I will get them posted as soon as I can.


And a big thank you to the cartoonists that have put links to STC on their sites:  Paul Gilligan (Pooch Cafe), Sandra Bell Lundy (Between Friends), Norm Feuti, (Retail), Terri Libenson (Pajama Diaries), Hilary Price (Rhymes With Orange), Mike Rhode (Comics DC) and Peter Guren and all the fine folks at The Cartoonist Studio.


Another big thank you to my twitter followers and retweeters:  especially Tom Racine (Tall Tale Radio), Mike Witmer (Pinkerton), Jeff Koterba (Inklings and Editorial Cartoons) and Mark Thompson. 

Spot Garry Trudeau

Garry Trudeau and Brian Walker will be at Yale University next week to kick off publicity for the new book "Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau" by Brian Walker.

Head over to "Spot the Cartoonist" for details

Spot The Cartoonist - latest schedules

Things are heating up over at "Spot The Cartoonist"

We have appearance schedules for Dan Piraro, Rina Piccolo, Keith Knight and Mike Witmer, just to name a few.

Head on over and check it out.

Spot the Cartoonist is up and running

I have my new feature "Spot The Cartoonist" up and running - go check it out.

And, if you have something you want to publicize, use the email button over there to get me your info and I'll put it up pronto.

New Feature on the Blog UPDATED

We interrupt the week of Toonfest coverage to bring you the following message: (skip down below if you are looking for the Toonfest stuff)

Today I made a decision to start a new feature here on the blog.

"Spot The Cartoonist" will be a place to find out where you can go to meet or hear a presentation by your favorite cartoonists.

For instance, if you lived anywhere within driving distance of Hamilton Ontario last weekend you could have attended presentations by Sandra Bell Lundy, Paul Gilligan, John Martz, Mike Cope and Leif Peng.

Likewise, if you were anywhere close to Marceline Missouri last weekend, you could have attended presentations (for free BTW) by Stan Goldberg, Guy Gilchrist, Marcus Hamilton, John Hambrock.

Monday September 20th found Dave Coverly in Wisconsin Rapids where, along with doing some school presentations, he attended a reception in is honor and a book signing - both of which were open to the public.

This weekend the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonist Society will be having their fall meeting in Omaha Nebraska. While much of the weekend will involve presentations to pre-selected schools and chapter members only, Saturday boasts a very full roster of events open to the public (scroll down the schedule until you see "Public Events"), including presentations by Josh Cooley of Pixar and two of the chapter members who have done the USO thing and visited the troops (I'm assuming one of those is Tom Richmond) a book signing and the opportunity to see John Read's excellent travelling exhibit of comic strip originals "One Fine Sunday In the Funny Pages."

And, of course, there is the Festival of Cartoon Art in Columbus Ohio in about three weeks (October 14-17) which will not only boast the chance to rub elbows with probably 75% of the members of the NCS as they wander around the OSU campus (and probably all the area bars and taverns as well) but a couple of events open to the public, the chance to buy a lot of folks book collections, (The new Edison collection might be one of them - working on it) and another chance to see the One Fine Sunday Exhibit.

Those are just a couple of things coming up off the top of my head- I'll be putting something a little more formal as I start to get info from folks.

I decided to start this feature as a sort of "one stop shopping" zone because I feel that the public loves to meet cartoonists and buy their books or whatnot (and cartoonists really like meeting and supporting each other as well - I've truly never met such a collegial profession) and announcements on facebook and twitter get buried so quickly in the timeline. So, once I work the bugs out - give me a week or two because I'll be running around Omaha and Columbus and also collecting schedules from people, this should be a feature with it's own permanent page and archive that you can access anytime.

UPDATE: Here is a link to what I have so far. I have to go to work but will hopefully have a permanent button on the sidebar by tonight.

http://overbookedandunderpaid.typepad.com/spot_the_cartoonist/