To be honest about it, when I finished the course I still couldn't draw that well. The course gave me the basics
and with practice I improved. It also gave me the encouragement to try to sell my work. I've been at
cartooning now for over 40 years and have lost track of all the magazines I've sold to. Although I never
made my full time living this way cartooning has been a fun and profitable sideline.
Most of my sales have been to small trade journals, but I have made some sales to major publications. One of
my cartoons was used as an illustration in a Chicken Soup for the Souls book, and that brought me $300. Other
well-known publications to which I've
sold include the Saturday Evening Post, Medical Economics, and Official Detective.
The internet and modern technologies have brought a whole new dimension to cartooning. In the past few years
I've done quite a bit of cartooning for websites and some animations in Macromedia Flash. I think the
internet has opened up vast new opportunities for cartoonists which didn't exist when I started out.
I've created this website to assist others who are just starting out in this fascinating business.
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