All Aboard!
Join this list and become part of a cartooning community! . . . or at least become part of a list of cartoonists, for what that's worth.
Do you qualify? To be listed on Salty 'Ham Cartooneestas, you have to follow two rules:
First, reside somewhere in the middle-Alabama area.
Second, be active (as a professional or a hobbyist) in some cartoonish pursuit. You might be a comic book penciller, a comic strip inker, a cartoon animator, a Flash animator, an anime writer, a caricaturist, a wacky illustrator, a funny fine artist, or something in between. Or something sort of close, anyway.
Now that's out of the way, there are two ways to sign up. The regular way, and the lazy person's way.
The regular way:
Email me, so I can put up a post on you here. My e-dress is cgarrison[at]bham.rr.com. Your email should include:
- Your name (or fake name, if you wish).
- The city, town, village, villa, hamlet, burg, or unincorporated route where you live.
- 1 to 7 jpegs of your work, if you can manage. You can also send a jpeg photo of yourself, if you like the idea of having your picture on here. If you don't have your drawings in a digital form, you can snail-mail them to me, and I'll be happy to scan them for you. Just let me know in your email, and I'll tell you where to send them. If you have animation, I can put up youtube links, instead of just jpegs.
- Write something about yourself for the post. It doesn't have to be fancy; it can just be a paragraph or two about what you do, or what you want to do, or who your influences are, or whatever you want to say. Or you could write nothing and leave it with just pictures, if you want to come off all mystEEEERious.
- Include any links to other sites you want people to know about, like your portfolio page or your myspace or whatever.
- Also, be sure to let me know whether or not it's okay to put your email address where people can see it.
Check out the existing artists' pages, as examples. Once you've sent me your stuff, I'll try to add you in the next couple of days or whenever I can. I put everybody on the list in alphabetical order by last name. So if you want to be at the top, pretend your name is Aaaaaron Aaaaardvark.
The lazy person's way:
If you're so incredibly busy or woefully lazy that you can't be bothered to take three minutes to send me some jpegs and a blurb, here's what you do. Just email me your name and a link to any work that you have online. My email address is cgarrison[at]bham.rr.com
I'll pick out my favorite pieces from your site and put them up myself. If you have a relevant piece of text on that site, I'll use it here, and if you don't, I'll just make you a post without words.
Now you have no excuse not to join, because now, instead of taking three minutes, it only takes 15 seconds! |
