hello from hugh: carpe diem every morning with ‘hugh’s daily cartoon’

[UPDATE: For more back­ground info on me, check out my “About” page , or to see to see ALL the car­toons that have been sent out so far, visit my online art gallery. Thanks.]

Hello!

One of your friends sent you the link to this page, and so here you are. Welcome!

My name is Hugh. I’m a car­too­nist. I have a news­let­ter, “Hugh’s Daily Car­toon”, which I send out five mor­nings a week (Sign up above). A wee chuc­kle in your inbox, to start your day off on the right foot (so to speak).

Actually, it’s a little bit more than that. I try to make car­toons that pro­voke, make peo­ple think, make peo­ple feel moti­va­ted. Carpe diem etc.

Any­way, it seems your friend wan­ted to turn you onto all this, so I hope you will subsc­ribe. [THE RSS feed is here.]

Below are some exam­ples of work I sent out recently, plus some tes­ti­mo­nials from a few of my rea­ders. With each news­let­ter a brief idea, sen­ti­ment or life expe­rience rela­ted to the car­toon is also explo­red. I hope you like them. Thanks!

“I am always exci­ted when I see that Hugh’s daily car­toon has arri­ved in my inbox. I know that wha­te­ver the sub­ject of the car­toon is — it’s going to be a great fire up the synap­ses and get me thin­king… and then get off my butt and get some work done! It’s one of my favo­rite e-mails.

“My favo­rite car­toon from the news­let­ter so far is “At Least” — and I was really glad to be able to use it to encou­rage a mem­ber of the “do something” crowd when their pro­duct was get­ting rip­ped to shreds in a forum. Hugh’s art expres­sed the sen­ti­ment far bet­ter than I could using just words.”

Trisha, San José, CA.

“Every day, either a laugh, a pro­found thought or wel­come com­mi­se­ra­tion land in my inbox. It’s the only news­let­ter I never ignore and always open right away.”

William Schec­kel, Montc­lair, NJ.

“Owning your own busi­ness allows you to con­trol many things, but your own wan­de­ring mind isn’t always one of them. Hugh’s news­let­ter is daily remin­der / kick in the pants that I’m in this for the right rea­sons and I could never do anything else because this what I was put on their earth to do. I can’t tell you how valua­ble that news­let­ter is to me every­day. Wait, I guess I just did…”

Brian Plain, Oak Park, IL.

“The arri­val of the news­let­ter always seems to come at an appro­priate time, when I’m get­ting buried in detail, and there is always something refreshing about Hugh’s com­ments: they remind me of what is impor­tant, and what I’m trying to achieve. ”

Mar­tin Locock

“Back in the day, I wor­ked at a little tech law firm in Chi­cago in a role that would take too long to explain (not as a law­yer), and at the time I was kind of obses­sed with the notion of how you could run a law firm like a tech com­pany.  Blogs like yours and Kathy Sierra’s kept me moti­va­ted in what could’ve been a really demo­ti­va­ting place.

“Fast for­ward to now, and that little place got absor­bed into a big one, and to paraph­rase someone, I tired of trying to teach the dino­saur about the meteor.  I make stuff.  I went back to school to learn how to make bet­ter stuff.  But there wasn’t a job wai­ting at the end of school, so I’m having to make one up for myself.  The ‘glo­bal mic­ro­brand’ dis­cus­sions loom large in my mind when I think about how to do this. I wouldn’t desc­ribe myself as the entre­pre­neu­rial type; I’m shy, and risk makes me queasy, but the alter­na­tive just isn’t right. And the e-mail in my inbox day-in day-out, reminds me that the soo­ner i start doing smar­ter work, the bet­ter.  That a decent paycheck isn’t the same thing as a good job. That you can go from being cyni­cal to ins­pi­red, depen­ding, and not be enti­rely crazy. Well, at least not the bad kind of crazy.  And that helps.

Besi­des, I like the cartoons.”

Erin Hoch­sat­ter

[P.S. Goes without saying– I will never, ever sell your e-mail address on to a third party. I utterly loathe spam, even more than you do, pro­bably. You have my word.]

[UPDATE: For more back­ground info on me, check out my “About” page , or to see to see ALL the car­toons that have been sent out so far, visit my online art gallery. Thanks.]