Comments on: on cartooning

By: i make junk mail for a living

i make junk mail for a living — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:24:50 +0000

You are a self-obsessed twerp.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:52:08 +0000

Hugh, I’ve always had your blog listed in my cartoons quick link folder. You cartoonist you.
hugs from Texas

By: KG

KG — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:23:54 +0000

It’s fascinating to read these insights — and I wonder if the general public will ever understand the energy and long-term commitment successful artists put into their work/vision. Alas, there will always be that crowd of “struggling artists” who are just posing as “fine artistes”, but at least they’re easy to identify…and steer clear of.
Your #30 is really interesting: something along the lines of the physics of success. The more energy one puts into an endeavor over a long period of time…your point really dilutes the whole over-night success phenomenon and explains why most don’t last.

By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:17:14 +0000

Why would you NOT recommend a young person pursue a career in fine arts? Please elaborate.

By: Chris Hiester

Chris Hiester — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:57:22 +0000

Speaking of being able to store several years of work in a shoebox–I came across a slang term “shoobies”. In the 1960s, city leaders in Atlantic City, NJ, desperate to stop the city’s decline referred to people who came to town just for the day as “shoobies”. The name came from the belief that these people would stuff everything they needed for a day at the beach into a shoebox. This was a derogatory term–the officials wanted people to stay in hotels and spend their money at restaurants, etc. I read this in a great book called “Boardwalk of Dreams” by Bryant Simon.

By: thefurgoner

thefurgoner — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:26:38 +0000

excelentes consejos
algunos los llevaba a cabo
siempre viene bien el refrescarlos
thanks
http://furgoner.blogspot.com/

By: Jake Keating

Jake Keating — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:09:16 +0000

i think the only advice you left off was that one must completely disregard everything you just said and figure it out on their own.

By: matt p

matt p — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:26:36 +0000

I’ve been reading your old stuff since yesterday. Now I can understand myself. Thanks

By: Rand

Rand — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:44:39 +0000

I remember in Chicago when you showed me the cartoon: Three words in descending order of importance:
I.
Love.
You.
I thought at the time: “I’ll never be as smart as this guy.” Boy was I right. Very inspiring Hugh. Your outlook (which isn’t manufactured) is pure inspiration for so many people. Bravo.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:25:22 +0000

Great read.
“All you need to start building an empire– drawing pen, blank business cards, iPod, smokes, lighter, and a local pub that serves a good pint.“
I got all that down pat (well, besides the blank business cards). Let’s hope it works.

By: Ken Layne

Ken Layne — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:03:24 +0000

Happy Decade of rocking the backside of business cards, Hugh!

By: s4ur4bh

s4ur4bh — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:45:25 +0000

You rock Hugh. Keep on the good work.
I have taken fwe liberties to post a couple of your cartoons on my blog (obviously with due credits).
I always thought no one knows (or could understand) what I thought about life and work and here you are with exact same thoughts (in lot of cases — you are ten steps ahead — talking about things that I havent thought about) and that too on the back of the business cards.
Thanks for being such a relief from millions of tons of gibberish spread on the internet.
Regards,
SG
P.S.: Wondering if all webpages were measurable in grams, would we exceed the weight of the planet .. ?
P.P.S.: Law of conservation of energy — You produce something by using something and sum total of Energy in the planet remains same (E=mc[sqr]). When creating websites is simple and in many cases automated, what law are we following .. ?

By: Pamela Slim

Pamela Slim — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:27:21 +0000

Beautiful thoughts Hugh, thanks for sharing.
And another perspective on the “magic you can’t recapture” and increasing reclusitude (made that word up …) — creative and spiritual endeavors never stay static, they are born, grow, evolve and reach a ripe age, and possibly die. But then another door opens, twists and turns emerge and creative birth happens again. This “quieter” period in your artistic life is perhaps the transition time to “something else.“
I like to think of things that way, anyway … that as we grow and evolve at each stage of life, new, creative work grows with us. Kind of an alternative perspective to the 82 year old movie star with cracked lipstick, clinging to her early fame.
Doesn’t mean you should stop what you are doing of course (please don’t!), but I am excited and curious to see what the next decade will bring.
Enjoy yourself, and thanks for always sharing your journey with us.
–Pam

By: Dick Rowan

Dick Rowan — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:49:15 +0000

Gosh, you sound like your own eulogist. I want to hear what you’ll do when the cards run out.

By: Trine-Maria

Trine-Maria — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:44:41 +0000

Love your list — and the cartoons — and don’t stop biting. I wondered about this one:
35. There’s something about being a celebrity, even a micro-celebrity that poisons the soul.
Why is that so?
You told me once to be a ‘global micro-brand’ and I love the term — even though I am more like a very local micro-brand But I think the poison might come partly from believing in it? Because I am seriously not a micro brand — I am just a person — I am even a micro person sometimes
Hope to see you soon here or there!