‘Here’s the fax, LIVE LIFE TO THE MAX!’

Motivational cartoon for a Motivational Memo….

If you’re going to make the incredible effort to be born, then why not live your life to the MAX. It makes sense, doesn’t it? Why do it half shod? Why only let the throttle out half way? Put your foot flat to the floor, spin the wheels, burn some rubber and let loose with a ‘Yahoo’ as you tear up the road in your supercharged hot rod of a life that is yours to live. Too many of us try to play it safe and at the end of the road we find ourselves trapped in self-imposed security. But you know and I know that there’s only one life to live, so let’s LIVE it.
Words © Peter Sinclair 2003
very small child inside a hot rod car speeding along his dog looks on in amazement

Danny Smell The Cartoonist from Hell!

I recently commissioned(Or tried to commission) a copywriter to do some copy for a web page I was putting together. I got excuse after excuse as to why things weren’t coming along very quickly. Which inspired the below cartoon…

Danny Smell - the cartoonist from hell. He is about to spin a big wheel that has a number of excuses on it like the Wheel of Fortune

Here’s some ‘excuses’ quotes to bear in mind…
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~ Don Wilder and Bill Rechin
No one ever excused his way to success. ~ Dave Del Dotto

Luckily for you, you have the contact details of a cartoonist
who gets on with it and doesn’t make excuses! ;) Call Richard on 01246 209034 or email

Cartoon Commission Walk Through…

Here’s the initial email and brief from Amanda….

Dear Richard,

I am throwing a Bachelorette Party for my best friend, and we are having a German Bierfest Bachelorette Party. There is a German beer festival right across the street, and we’ll all be sporting German beer girl outfits! Amazingly enough though, I’ve scoured the internet looking for appropriate invitations and favors and haven’t found a single one that fits the occassion! I would love to be able to get custom Beer Steins as favors, but the only German-bierfest themed stein I could find was tailored to Bachelors only.

I thought it would be just perfect if I could get a little cartoon of a bunch of girls in dirndls holding beer steins. The central girl should be tall and thin with shoulder length dark curly hair pulled into pigtails and large boobs, wearing a pink dress with brown apron (that’s the bride). Next to her should be a shorter girl with only slightly smaller boobs, dirty blonde hair in 2 braids (that’s me), wearing light blue dress with white apron. The top of my head comes up to the bottom of her neck, right above her shoulder. The other girls can be in between heights and whatever hair and dress color you want and as many as you want, but my best friend and I are known for looking funny together with the extreme height difference. I’ve attached a picture for you so you kind of know what we look like.

bachelorette bierfest cartoon of four big busted barmaids holding steins of beer

I would also like one girl, not me or the bride, to be about to take a bite of a very long, very phallic bratwurst. I don’t care if you do it or I do it, but after I get it I would use Oktoberfest type lettering to write “Bachelorette Bierfest” across the top. Or, if you want to include the lettering with the cartoon, you could have it weaving through the girls somehow. The positioning doesn’t really matter, it just needs to be there. Maybe the date of the party too, August 23, 2008, or the name of the bride, Sara Varnum. I give you free artistic license based on the aforementioned guidelines.

I would like to print the cartoon on approximately 6-10 steins, and also use it for 12 invitations. I see you also make greeting cards so that would be great if you could do the invites too, but just one sheet, not a foldover type thing. I suppose I need to commission you for the cartoon, then I would like the rights to reproduce it for the steins. Also, if it’s not too much additional cost, I would like to be able to have the cartoon printed on 20 personalized stamps to use with the invitations through zazzle.com, but they are very strict with copyright rules so I would need explicit permission for it.

Bier Fest cartoon

After the completed project…

Richard is a joy to work with!  He worked with my budget, my ideas, and my requests with expert artistry and impeccable efficiency!  He works so fast and does exactly what you want and even exceeded my expectations.  Any changes I wanted were done immediately and perfectly, and there was no frustrating back and forth email exchange.  It was so easy, and I know my party will be extra special because of his work!

Thanks again!!!! Amanda