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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Tami is right about "making it" as a cartoonist. It would be easier to become an astronaught or play for the NFL.
There are many more positions in those fields than there are jobs for cartoonists. For the lucky few who get to inhale the rarified air of syndication life is easy street. As long as you can continue to be fresh, funny and creative every day for the rest of your life. The few, like Schultz and Trudeau, who have truly "made it" and are internationaly syndicated are amazingly rare talents. The freelance 'toonist has to compete with the syndications that newspapers subscribe to. The papers can use all they want for a flat monthly fee. If they do have room for one of yours the are unlikely to pay more than $10 - $15 per which is about what it costs them to run Doonesbury for a day.
Now for Trudeau who is printed in over 3000 papers everyday that is some good coin. But for us little folk $10 doesn't buy diapers or put gas in the pencil sharpener.
So many of us would be 'toonists have realized this paradigm and are happy when somebody is just tickled enough to hang one of drawings on the fridge. Just big kids with nice crayons I quess.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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"I have to admit that for 30 yrs I've been drawing cartoons c'os I really like to laff at my own jokes".
That is really why I do mine as well.
Tami Your work is really wonderfull!
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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You can kind of understand guys stealing from banks...
'cause they have no money.
But who would steal intellectual property?!
:-)
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Never published but I recall a cartoon a friend drew in our German class in high school. We had this game where when the teacher would ask someone to read something outloud, the rest of us would try to get the student to laugh. The teacher would turn his back to the class, and then when the student was busting up the teacher would turn around and say, "Was is loss?"
Anyhow, the cartoon I remember was a climber with exagerated steroid type physique, anatomically correct down to his schlong that resembled a muscled baguette.
For the published stuff, Tami was tops.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Tami,
Sorry it came off that way. It was meant back when Climbing WAS a climbing magazine, your cartoons were great.
I'm sure your toons ARE still great. Can you post any of them with getting into a legal battle with yourself 8~)
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2008 - 07:33pm PT
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Well, that sux Tami. I thought you'd of done more $$ than that.... show's what I know. I reckon I'm an idealist.... my best class in collage was philosophy, but nobody pays to debate logic on the corner anymore... guess ya gotta be a politician.... but no thanks to that one.
Anyhow, happy toons to you!
D.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Tami that was hillarious. Having worked on the ad pages for more than a few small mountain town papers I really related to this piece.
I loved how you could learn to climb 5.14 in just six days but it would take six weeks to become a retail mountain store "floor warrior".
" British expedition uber-survivor Deep Slot". Classic!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Mmm...chocolate and Scotch...I'll have the Dagobaga xocolatl and the Glenfiddich Reserve, please.
Remeber what Matt Groenig said: "Copyright infringement is the sincerest form of flattery"
*cackle*
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Jul 22, 2015 - 08:50am PT
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The underground cartoons that were drawn in Camp 4 were just hilarious.
Not for general consumption, though.
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
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Jul 22, 2015 - 09:29am PT
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Found some great threads from the past lately. This could be fun. Almost makes me want to participate again. Found this laying on a table in Bishop........
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Jul 22, 2015 - 10:03am PT
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Thanks, Tami, for all the great 'toons!"
"Time to let out an a avalanche poodle" is part of my weird little groups' lingo.
Are there any of your t-shirts around?
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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The New Yorker has a weekly caption contest. Here's a recent winner:
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Jan 18, 2017 - 09:43pm PT
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jan 19, 2017 - 10:20am PT
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I have the original for that one on the bedroom wall, above my dresser.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Jan 19, 2017 - 07:06pm PT
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