Freelance Cartooning
(Page 4 of 6)
January/February 1970
By the Mother Earth News editors
Approach the chairmen of various clubs and offer to dress up their programs and announcements when they are planning special events. Maybe you can land a job designing a calender showing the year's important meetings for a club or lodge.
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Richard Riley, writing in the August, 1969 CARTOON WORLD (just in case you think the above won't work) says: "Our town has an annual rodeo each spring and since I do a great deal of rodeo-type cartoons I talked to the program manager of the Jaycees. After they had their dummy made up, they gave it to me and I did cartoons in the white spaces. The Jaycees told their customers about me as they sold the ads and I not only picked up a nice check from the Jaycees, but from the ads too. Also, my cartoon book, LIT' WRANGLER, will be sold at the rodeo . . .and I got ten free tickets, too!"
Get a big pad of newsprint or drawing paper and teach yourself to give interesting chalk talks. A size of 2' X 3' is good for this and you'll find charcoal crayons handy to work with. One subject you can use is "How cartoonists think up gags and make their drawings". Clubs and other groups will use you as entertainment for $10-$20 a throw with, usually, a meal for good measure,
A lot of people will pay very good money for a custom mural done on play room or den walls. These are generally colorful scenes done in opaque water colors and varnished over when well dried. Better practice this one first! Banks and restaurants also go for these.
A well drawn replica of a new home will sell to the proud home owner. Merchants will pay for good drawings of their stores. They hang em on the walls and use 'em on letterheads and in advertising.
Most factories print a small paper or magazine for employees. Offer to do art work or a cartoon for them.
Teach yourself to do a nice job of lettering . . . and learn to use transfer lettering. You'll find a lot more jobs coming your way.
Drop in to the local TV station with a portfolio. Local stations can always use locally-drawn "spots". Some cartoonists have even landed a cartoon TV program of their own.
MAGAZINE CARTOONING
OK. We started telling you about magazine cartooning so it's about time we got back to the main subject.
There are thousands and thousands of specialized publications printed in this country. You know about LIFE and NEWSWEEK and other national magazines . . . but have you ever heard of BOOT AND SHOE RECORDER . . . or PURE MILK NEWS . . . or PRINTING IMPRESSIONS? Probably not - but all three use cartoons.
Go to the local library and look through the directories of business and trade magazines. One is GEBBIE's and another is published by N.W. Ayres and Sons. They'll open your eyes and give you enough names and addresses to keep you busy for a long, long time. But you'll be submitting your work a little blindly if you only use such directories.
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