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Drawing cartoons and illustrations is magical. I love the challange of thinking of a cartoon concept and I love the process of creating an illustration that carries a message. I work in Photoshop, Illustrator, pastels, and watercolor. I am self-taught and have been drawing since I was just a kid. I always helped my mother with her shopping. She gave me an allowance of ten cents each Friday and I used it to buy a comic book. I copied the Disney artwork over and over then I created my own characters. It was great fun. I sold signs to stores before I was a teen. I started to draw magazine cartoons when I was a teenager and was unsuccessful for many years, but I learned much. I started to draw and sell cards and realized that my humor was fine and that I needed to work on my drawings. I did that for several years and voila! I started to sell cartoons to magazines. My humor writing allowed me to sell jokes to stage humorists and speech writers and other cartoonists. I worked with several famous comedians and I have worked a several corporate projects.
I went to college and finised with a degree in organic chemistry and followed that with a masters degree in Advanced Organic Chemistry and a masters degree in Administration. I worked in chemical research, and education on the college level.
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I have sold my work to many publications including The New Yorker, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and many additional publications. I have created work for many book publishers and corporations as well. I created five books of cartoons for a major educational publisher and a color calendar. All sold very well. I created humor and cartoons for corporations. I have written for advertising agencies, and taught on the college level and the graduate level, been a pharmaceutical research chemist for a major research center, and designed college programs in continuing education. I created online courses for the City University of New York back when this was a novel approach. I am often asked where I get my ideas. I write all my own ideas. How I do that is to relax, and let the ideas come to me. You cannot force the process and I think you cannot learn the process.
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