March 16, 2008

cartooning gigs

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[A riff on the Blue Mons­ter car­toon. Recently com­mis­sio­ned by Mic­ro­soft etc.]
Recently I’ve been bus­ying myself with a new series of car­toons I’m doing for Mic­ro­soft. The car­toon above is one of them.
Mic­ro­soft is awash with both [A] com­pli­ca­ted pro­ducts and [B] com­pli­ca­ted ideas, so they often use my car­toons inter­nally to com­mu­ni­cate them in a more, shall we say, diges­ti­ble form.
I’m also tal­king to other large com­pa­nies about doing the same kind of thing with them. The work suits me. I like the cha­llenge, I like the men­tal alge­bra, I like being able to inter­face with hard­core, real-world pro­blems. And it can all be done in Alpine, Texas, Cum­bria or whe­re­ver via the inter­net, without me having to book an air­line tic­ket and hotel.
If this is something that would be use­ful for your com­pany, feel free to drop me an e-mail.
Thanks.
[I’m still doing the public spea­king and appea­rance gigs, of course. More info here. Thanks Again.]

5 Responses to “cartooning gigs”

  1. Jason Hargrove says:
    March 18, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    I like the copyw­ri­ting, though from a brand per­cep­tual stand­point I’m not sure how that mons­ter repre­sents them well.
    Having said that, my *per­so­nal* fee­lings toward MS are slan­ted a cer­tain way, and in this light I really enjoy the use of the mons­ter ;)
    I’m pretty impres­sed that you mana­ged to sell them on the con­cept… mayhap you’ve deli­ve­red them a subtle sort of tro­jan horse.

  2. Reginald says:
    March 20, 2008 at 12:47 am

    I, too, am impres­sed that you suc­cess­fully acqui­red Mic­ro­soft as a client for your car­too­ning con­cept.
    Did this pro­cess of con­vin­cing Mic­ro­soft take a long time?

  3. Terence Dodge says:
    March 20, 2008 at 3:32 am

    Con­si­de­ring what we as humans have done with our “poten­tial”, MS biz plan as we have seen ( we on the recei­ving end, as it is ) I think the future looks like Haiti ( on a bad day, with no clouds ).
    Glad you have work that you enjoy, like your car­toons.
    Terence
    ( Full disc­lo­sure, I use MS pro­ducts run­ning in a Vir­tual machine Environment )

  4. Catherine says:
    March 22, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Howdy! When you going to blog a bit more?! Follo­wing your twit­ter is great but i miss your regu­lar great wri­ting and views! x

  5. Lost Duck says:
    March 23, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Inte­res­ting web­site. ITs really inte­res­ting mic­ro­soft uses you car­toons in such a way!! Good job.