November 7, 2006
an old polaroid
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An old polaroid of myself, taken circa 1990 by my old friend, David Freedman. He tells the backstory here.
David and I used to work together at Leo Burnett in Chicago, when we were first out of college. Later, we collaborated on turning Mr Hell, a cartoon character of mine, into a TV series for the BBC.
David’s now a very well-respected animation producer in London, and doing very well, with a lovely wife and two darling kids to call his own.
I got David into blogging just over a year ago. He tells me it’s been pretty useful for his career so far, because as he put it, “it keeps my name out there, within the industry”.
I’ve been saying this for a while: you don’t necessarily need a huge audience to be a successful blogger. You just need a good audience, relevant to which ever industry you choose to be in.
Niches are good. We like niches.
Wow! I never realised Mr Hell was one of yours! Nice work! You learn something new every day.
Sadly i just took down my blog, too easy to trace to me and too much of a bad idea in an institutional/business context, even if i never said anything bad about my employers of colleagues. Not that it was exactly top quality anyway.
Same here, I never knew Mr Hell was one of your creations. That was a pretty funny show.
Its a very effective blog
I am SO putting this on your Lens! lol
Is “comical tragedy” a niche?
Niches are great, but not when they are too nichey… being a F-lister really sucks at times.
I decided to try and find a great, big, fat niche. Something nobody else was doing in a space where everybody else was. Those types of niches are the great ones, the ones that take some creative effort.
Niches are great until you get spotted
Oh. My. God.
I read your blog every day but I never knew you started the Mr Hell Show. Incredible. Just letting you know it is probably the greatest show I have ever seen.
Thankyou
With you there buddy. They say if you manage to find one true friend in life you’ve done well — whomever ‘they’ are. I’m finding lots of little folk doing cool niche things. Nice.