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I know some of you have already talked to John Read, the editor of the new Stay Tooned Magazine, but for those of you who don't know about him or have only heard rumors that there's a guy trying to bring us something to fill the void left when Cartoonist ProFiles went- the new magazine is up and going:

http://www.staytoonedmagazine.com/

Hello fellow SEC members! I am leading the coordination of our annual fall meeting for this coming October/November timeframe. I will once again be getting quotes on hotels, meeting rooms, etc. and working with the Chattanooga Visitors Bureau. Help me out by giving me some good dates and some no-no dates. Let's start by focusing on the Fri., Sat., Sun. dates beginning Oct. 3rd through Oct. 26th. Talk to me cartoonists!

Just as in the ancient Greek forum from which our little chat area rips off its name, there are heavy issues being weighed under CHAPTER BUSINESS > SECNCS stuff. Go there now and acquaint yourself with the issues and weigh in. It's so important and stolid, that it hardly feels like cartooning. See you there.

Let me introduce myself...
I'm a graphic designer, illustrator and animator who lives in Avondale Estates, Georgia. As a graphic designer for television, I've created 3D animations for clients such as CNN, TBS and various television stations around the country.
In 2002, I was diagnosed with a detached retina, which threatened my eyesight. After recovering, and at age 45, I wrote and drew my first comic book, "Detached" about the experience, as well as the fear and doubts that were connected with it.

I wonder if it's possible to play a game called 'six degrees to a comic book movie.'
You start with any actor's name, and try to link it with a comic book movie or TV show.

Like, say, Larry Hagman...

Hmmm. Larry Hagman played JR Ewing alongside Patrick Duffy. Patrick Duffy played the Man From Atlantis, which was a comic book that Marvel put out.

"But, you say, that comic was based on the show, not the other way round, so it doesn't count..."

..time for me to update my way-out-of-date website and make it more cohesive. Over the years I had simply added to it in the old center-everything approach. And it looked like a hodgepode evolution of learn-as-you-go HTML coding. So today, it's officially implemented and there are two ways to get there-- http://www.jptoonist.com and the forward-to-there from http://www.jackpittman.net .

A buddy of mine created a MySpace account for a character in my comic strip.
He did it because I was going to have that character mention his myspace account in a strip, and I wanted there to actually be one, because if there wasn't, I'm assured by people who've been cartooning longer than I have, somebody would write to tell me that they went looking and that Toby didn't have a MySpace account.

I thought of keeping a blog there, just for fun. There are two entries, I think.

Who's got the time for blogging?

I've used my Cintiq for about a year and a half now, and a few observations are in order. It's a big relief that I don't have to do oversized illustrations on 30x40 illustration board any more. Digitally, you can just start drawing on the screen and keep adding to your "canvas" as needed. The fact that the Cintiq tilts like a drawing table and swivels like an animation board makes for the nearest thing to drawing on a sheet of paper and rotating the sheet as you draw to take advantage of your optimal swing of the wrist.

Okay, this is my first blog entry--entirely, upon the whole landscape of the internet-- well, that doesn't include interviews. But it's significant in that
1) it is my first pro-active entry
2) I'm grateful that it doesn't consume any of my personal bandwidth
and 3) it will be critical for business of freelancers in the 21st century.

Let me explain,

Yup. That's right... it's a blog