History
Methodology and Materials
I have numerous sketch books filled with ideas that I refer to when creating an original cartoon panel - and I'm always filling up a new sketchbook, too. After I select a cartoon I like from a book I draw it in finished form in a preprinted panel. My latest panel design was created in Adobe Illustrator CS3. I have my panel designs printed at a local print shop and I usually have 250 sheets printed at a time. These printed cartoon panels have the Funny Files by-line above the panel as seen in publications and measure approximately 7" across by 9" high. They are printed on 2-ply bristol vellum sheets. I draw the cartoons in these panels using Speedball technical pens and India ink. I use B-6, A-5, and B-4 pen nibs, with Speedball Super Black and Higgins Black Magic inks. After finishing the drawings in the panels I scan the line art into Adobe Photoshop CS3 and process the cartoons adding color and/or halftones, reduce the cartoon size, and add copyright tags. They are then ready to be sent to clients by snail-mail, e-mail, or fax.
Past and Present Clients
Newspapers/Magazines:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Hagerstown Exponent, The Richmond Graphic,
Calls Freak (Australia), Cartoon Cavalcade, The Richmond Palladium-Item,
Winchester News-Gazette, Indianapolis Weekender, The Indiana Daily Student,
The Rennsselaer Republican, The Duqoin Evening Call, The Other Paper (Columbus,
Ohio), SanJose Spartan Daily, The Comic Press News, The Joker Monthly, The
East Bay Monthly(CA), Satire Quarterly, Cartoon Comedy Club, Medical Economics,
King Features Syndicate (The New Breed), Tribune Media's College Press Service,
Snicker, The Journal of Silly (London, England), Laf!, Dragon Magazine,
Reflex Magazine (Gdansk, Poland). Humor Times
Books:
Artist Market, 1996 Edition.
Latte Laughs (Design One, Bellevue, WA), 1996.
Understanding Psychology (McGraw-Hill), 2000.
Funny Files, E-book series (Jambooks), 2000.
Taking Your Pet to the Vet (ECW Press), 2001.
How to Landscape Your Yard Without Knowing a Damn Thing About Trees
and Shrubs, (Forte Publishing), 2003.
Funny Files: A Collection of Cartoons by Jon Carter (Page Free Publishing),
2003.
The Queen of Persia (Shazak
Productions), 2003.
Out
of Egypt (Shazak
Productions), 2004.
Miracle Lights (Shazak
Productions), 2004.
Poker Talk
(Cardoza Publishing), 2005.
Corporate work:
Cashel Consulting, Dana Corporation, Exceltra, inc., Institute for Healthcare
Advancement, Whitewater Community Broadcasting, Air Park, inc.,Ready Reading
Glasses,inc., Speaking Results, inc.
Digital
work:
Cartoons included in program E-mail Impact (Appian Software, 1994);
paintings selected by juried exhibition for inclusion in Best Contemporary
Art CD-Rom (1995 & 1996 Editions, Art Communication International);
freelance
coloring pages (cartoon line art) for online coloring book company The
Crayon House.
Web
Sites:
These web sites regularly showcase my cartoons and/or send traffic to this
site:
Kangaroocards.com Mamak.com NC Buy
Pics4fun
Stu's Comic Strip Connection (Showcase) Lil' Games Shazak Marianne
Richmond Studios Veesh
Newspaper and Television Interviews
WCTV,
Richmond, IN:
Focus on the Arts, Feb.1996(cameo), Mar. 1998(15 min. interview).
America's
Talking Network:
National interview (approx. 20 min.) with Lee Salem (UPS), Mar. 26, 1996.
WDTN, Dayton, OH:
Regional interview, Sept. 19, 1996.
Exhibits
Whitewater
Valley Annual Art Exhibition,
1992.
One
Man Show, Indiana University East Art Gallery, 1996.
European
Cartoon Biennial Exhibition,
Belgium,
1999.
International Biennial of Humour & Satire,
Gabrovo,
Bulgaria, 1999.
Indiana Cartoonists, Nettle Creek Cultural Center,
Oct. 2007.
Toonpool.com Underground Exhibit, Berlin, Germany,
June 2009.
wspaper and Television Interviews
