Cartoons

I've wanted to be a cartoonist for almost as long as I've wanted to be a writer. The two go together at some level. Obviously, with cartooning you have to write. But you also have to draw. This is the weird thing. I can draw. But when it comes to drawing cartoons, I haven't hit upon a style that I like. I keep dabbling, but unlike writing, my cartooning stints are far and inbetween. It could literally be years between a cartoon. And then I might reel off five or six in a row. Here's my favorite cartoon of mine:

If my records are correct (and I have doubts about that due to some hard disk crashes throughout the years), I drew this in 2002. There's a chance I did this cartoon earlier than that. I put together a batch (as it's called in the business, or so I've heard) and sent them into the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Gordon Van Gelder wrote me a nice rejection (he seems to be a really nice guy). I haven't sent them out since. Who else would be interested in science fiction-themed cartoons? Seriously, that was my thought-process, even though there are probably lots of places that take single-panel cartoons regardless of genre. This is a prime example of how easily discouraged I can get. I ended up publishing them on my other site (http://www.sf-colorado.com/) though that was years ago and you can't find them there anymore.