Let's face it, cartooning as a main-stream career is largely finished in the traditional sense of working for a newspaper, a magazine, or publishing a cartoon strip.  In case you hadn't noticed, people have stopped paying a fair price for your work.  These days, websites offer cartoons for peanuts and, well, everyone copies and pastes any cartoon they can lay their hands on if it's published on the internet.  Right?

 

But as one door closes, another one opens and professional cartoons these days can look forward to the new opportunities available through social media, visual story-telling, web comics, web animations and a million and one other platforms.

 

But if you can't generate ideas, or interpret a client's brief, you may as well pack it in.  That's why our teaching approach aims to upskill you in the only area that counts, and that is how cartoonists generate ideas.  Anything else is a waste of time.  In case you hadn't noticed, the internet is full of people who can draw like Leonardo DaVinci but what seems to be popular these days are simple drawing styles So we developed software that will help you generate ideas.  It's as simple as that, really.

 

Your tutor, Ian Dalkin, is a hard-working professional cartoonist with a love of strong coffee.