Yes, John Read’s successor to the fabled Cartoonist PROfiles has now reached its third outing (so to
speak), and you can order your copy at staytoonedmagazine.com — a mere $9,
plus $2 p&h. This issue features profiles of magazine gag cartoonist Benita
Epstein, freelance Nebraska cartoonist Paul Fell, character designer Cedric
Hohnstadt, editorial cartoonist R.J. Matson, Jim Gasoline Alley Scancarelli, cover artist Richard Cul de Sac Thompson, and webcomic
creator Mike Witmer; plus articles by Mark Lio
Tatulli, Norm Retail Feuti, Tom Mad magazine Richmond, and freelancer
Mike Edholm (who reports on Toonfest '08). Also, the art of John Kovaleski and
Stephen Silver is spotlighted. While all of the articles and profiles are
engrossing, Chad Carpenter’s story about
cartooning in Alaska is highly unusual. He started his Tundra strip
about wild life on the tundra in December 1991, self-syndicating it just to Alaska newspapers.
Carpenter was perfectly happy with this arrangement, but fourteen years later,
a salesman friend of his, Bill Kellogg, took the strip on the road to the Lower
Forty-eight, and the strip’s circulation jumped from a half-dozen papers to
hundreds — as of January, 260; and Allan Gardner at the DailyCartoonist says the
total is 275 as of February 16. And that’s just the most cryptic sample of the
sorts of things you can find in Stay
Tooned.
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