Archive for Humorous greetings cards
Freaky Foods – cartoons for Greetings Cards!
Posted by: | CommentsJust came across this greetings card range that I worked on with Peter Bacanin some time ago. The series is still out there doing the rounds of cards publishers but I thought I’d let you have a look at it. Let me know if you have any great ideas we can work on together!?
Greetings Card Artist – FAQ!
Posted by: | CommentsHere’s a list of questions a student asked me about being a greetings card artist/cartoonist.(With a few samples thrown in!)
1. When did you first get interested in becoming a greeting card artist? Probably about 25 years ago – as a beginning cartoonist I was always on the look out for ways to make a living. When it dawned on me that there was money to be made there was no stopping me!
2. Is most of your work done alone? Over the years I have worked mostly alone but have had assistants when things got really busy. One worked with me for 12 years.
3. What kind of environment do you work in? Mostly I’ve worked from home – I did have a studio in the town centre Chesterfield UK for over ten years. I have since extended my home to make a large-ish studio over the garage.
Humorous Greeting card design! Dug out from 1999 archives!
Posted by: | CommentsHumorous Greetings card design! Dug out from 1999 archives!
A publisher approached me yesterday asking for some humorous greetings card designs for ‘Sisters’. So I have a search around my archives and found this one which I thought was amusing around that time. I won’t be sending them this as it has already been published – but I might rework something similar and updating the wording for 2010. I’ll probably think up about 10-12 one liners and rough these out for this particular publisher to choose from. I’ll let you know how I go on.
Humorous greetings cards – Pig Tales!
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Pig Tales greeting card gag!
Here’s a cartoon I did years ago for a humorous cartoon calendar titled ‘Pig Tales’. It was a yearly job usually created in January/February for the following New Year. Each year I would submit 20 ideas for Jarrold’s Publishing to choose the 12 months from. So I must have about 100 ideas/artworks on file. I’m thinking of resurrecting them as a range of greetings cards. I think the ideas still hold up well.
What do you think?
