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I am available to do commissioned cartoons, portraits, sketches and illustrations.For more information about rates and turnaround time, contact me at kurtoons.wilcken (at) gmail.com Or just leave me a message for the heck of it. I live for feedback.
Hi Kurt. After seeing your post on Pat’s FB wall, I decided to checkout your website. I see you’ve been very busy. The children’s book you illustrated, what is the title and can I get it at my local bookstore? Maybe I can buy it directly from you or your publisher? Can you autograph it for me too?
The title is “Trouble on Earth Day” by Kathy Stemke and it is published by Wild Plains Press. I don’t have any copies to sell myself at this moment, but you can order it through Kathy’s website. I’d be delighted to autograph a copy for you, though.
I’m not signed in at Daily Kos. I saw your post on Ellid’s page about “The Yokum Method.” Were you aware of a similar story from the later years of the strip? (Capp, like many cartoonists before and since, was not above revisiting old material.)
In this case the PUA was Manly Stanley, not a Yokum, and his beneficiary was Abner’s son Honest Abe. One big difference was, we got to see Manly Stanley’s method: “Do Nothin’.” According to MS, women have two glands, the “Will He” gland and the “Why Won’t He” gland. The first one activates when the male is in proximity, but as he continues to “Do Nothin’,” the second one comes into play — “And that, mah boy, is when the ack-shun starts!”
I’m not sure it’s an improvement, to know the method.
I don’t recall that one; I remember a few storylines from Li’l Abner that I read as a kid back in the early ’70s, but I don’t think I ever saw that one. But it doesn’t surprise me that Capp reworked earlier stories. He may have mocked environmentalists, but he was very conscious of the value of recycling.
Hi Kurt. My name is Dan Porter and I am on the Board of Directors for the Bluffton-Hilton Head Island Meals on Wheels organization. We are a 501(c)3 not-for-profit charity focused on hunger among seniors. All officers, directors and drivers (about 70 people) work without any compensation or expense reimbursement. (see out website mowblufftonhhi.org).
We particularly like the “I’m Hungry” cartoon and would like to use it on the cover of a brochure we distribute throughout the community. We would like to modify it to take out the “I’m Hungry” name and make the light house red and white striped as our landmark lighthouse is here — we are able to do that here. (see http://harbourtownlighthouse.com/)
We would like you permission to do so and to use the cartoon. If you wish we will include your name and website address under the cartoon or on the back cover of the brochure. We would also be happy to provide a link to your site from our website.
Thank you. And BTW, I have been enjoying your work this morning.
Dan Porter
You have a nice, clean drawing style. I like that — the simplicity, high-contrast, sharp lines, clean-cut look. Have just sampled your first book thus far, but like your characters! Ms. duPree (with the tail), for example, and the little museum guy with the bushy eyebrows! I hope to read your entire first book over the long weekend, if possible! Nice looking website, too, by the way.