Cat Cartoons
My cat tarot project has been shelved for a while as I work on a cat cartoon. Once I get the book done, it'll maybe be out of my system?
Well, probably not but then again I'll have something physical that I can sell so it's no biggie. I've already looked into different ways of getting this into print. Also thought about t-shirts and mugs, CafePress, etc. One individual panel I love is the cat with his paws up in the air going "Curses! Foiled by the dominant life form!" And the full 3 panel strip where they're unwrapping his paw and he goes on a Frankenkitty/Mummykitty rampage.
However I need to rework the beginning. I need a NAME for the kitty. AND I need a name for the entire cartoon strip. Everything I picked has either been shot down or is already in use with someone else's cat comic. Everything suggested to me doesn't fit the feel of the strip.
Once I get an entire booklet together, it gets copyrighted. So far there's about 58 different strips, but I need a third again as many to fill out an entire book. Looks like self publishing is the way to go. I did check over on Lulu.com where they can host cartoon strips and do automatic sales from there, but someone on the paper doll bulletin board did hers with that and said the process isn't streamlined and she had quite a few problems with it before her stuff was properly on the site.
I've had a short dry spell here, almost a full month with no inspiration for cat cartoon strips, but that broke yesterday when I came up with three ideas that panned out pretty good. I don't know how regular cartoonists do it, just keeping up with things and keeping them fresh must be a horrible thing under pressure. As it is, I'm NOT doing cliche stuff, doing my damndest to make sure this is all new and not something that everyone's seen before a hundred times. It's not easy!!!! But it is fun.
So my cat character who may someday become famous is currently regulated to a folder, strips tacked up with pushpins on the wall by my computer at work, and residing in the mail to 5 different people who get copies whenever I get 4 of 5 new pages drawn. Two people at work read all the strips too. And a friend of Steve's got a set. And his mom. Oh, and the vet, she wanted a set of the whole thing after I'd tacked the Ninja strip up on their cartoon section of their bulletin board there at the clinic. And the lady at the post office has seen about 8 pages worth.
He is semi famous and doesn't even have a name yet. Wow.
Well, probably not but then again I'll have something physical that I can sell so it's no biggie. I've already looked into different ways of getting this into print. Also thought about t-shirts and mugs, CafePress, etc. One individual panel I love is the cat with his paws up in the air going "Curses! Foiled by the dominant life form!" And the full 3 panel strip where they're unwrapping his paw and he goes on a Frankenkitty/Mummykitty rampage.
However I need to rework the beginning. I need a NAME for the kitty. AND I need a name for the entire cartoon strip. Everything I picked has either been shot down or is already in use with someone else's cat comic. Everything suggested to me doesn't fit the feel of the strip.
Once I get an entire booklet together, it gets copyrighted. So far there's about 58 different strips, but I need a third again as many to fill out an entire book. Looks like self publishing is the way to go. I did check over on Lulu.com where they can host cartoon strips and do automatic sales from there, but someone on the paper doll bulletin board did hers with that and said the process isn't streamlined and she had quite a few problems with it before her stuff was properly on the site.
I've had a short dry spell here, almost a full month with no inspiration for cat cartoon strips, but that broke yesterday when I came up with three ideas that panned out pretty good. I don't know how regular cartoonists do it, just keeping up with things and keeping them fresh must be a horrible thing under pressure. As it is, I'm NOT doing cliche stuff, doing my damndest to make sure this is all new and not something that everyone's seen before a hundred times. It's not easy!!!! But it is fun.
So my cat character who may someday become famous is currently regulated to a folder, strips tacked up with pushpins on the wall by my computer at work, and residing in the mail to 5 different people who get copies whenever I get 4 of 5 new pages drawn. Two people at work read all the strips too. And a friend of Steve's got a set. And his mom. Oh, and the vet, she wanted a set of the whole thing after I'd tacked the Ninja strip up on their cartoon section of their bulletin board there at the clinic. And the lady at the post office has seen about 8 pages worth.
He is semi famous and doesn't even have a name yet. Wow.
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