Author: Cedric

Last year I declared March to be "Sketchbook Month" and started an informal little blog challenge: a sketch every weekday for the entire month. Several other artists joined in and pretty soon we had a pretty good party going. With the new baby things are just too crazy for me to attempt it again this year, but I'm hoping next...

Recently I've started an email correspondence with a creative director who was laid off from a large agency. She's looking for some freelance work to keep the bills paid and is thinking about possibly launching out on her own full-time. With the economy continuing to flounder stories like hers are becoming more and more common. I sat down to type up a list of resources for her and decided it would make a pretty good blog post.

Australian designer Jenica Smith publishes designmontage.com, a website which brings together an eclectic mix of creative goodies from all corners of the internet - design, illustration, photography, animation, and the like. She's just posted a short interview with me about my illustration work and career. I encourage all my blog readers to take a poke around the site. There's some...

For several years I've enjoyed being a member of the National Cartoonists Society. Two or three times a year I travel across the Midwest to spend a couple of days hanging out with other members of my chapter. You can take this to the bank: Getting a few cartoonists together over drinks is never dull. One of our members is John...

A picture really is worth a thousand words. Tonight I saw "The Artist", a feature film getting a lot of buzz. It just won three Golden Globe including best film (musical or comedy) and some say it deserves an Oscar for Best Picture. I wouldn't quite go that far but it is a very good film. What's makes "The Artist" especially remarkable...