Tuesday, January 11, 2011
1 Year Anniversary
Today is the Cartoon Tester 1 year anniversary and what a year it has been!
Thank you all for following the blog and leaving comments. Initially I thought I would only run the blog for a few months, but due to the great response I decided that it was definitely worth continuing.
Some of my Highlights for the Tester Cartoon blog include:
Wow! What a list! Thank you again for all the great support I’ve received that has made the above a reality.
Recently, a few people have asked when and why I started drawing cartoons about testing. I think some of them were asking ‘Why? Why are you wasting your time drawing stupid cartoons?” but I think others were genuinely interested!
There are a number of reasons why…
One was that I wanted to get more involved in the wider testing industry. One option was to start a typical blog but I knew I wasn’t great at writing articles.
I knew that I had ‘some’ skill at drawing cartoons. I used to draw cartoons about my wife and I and our relationship together. Some of the cartoons made her laugh, so I thought I was unto something as she’s my toughest critic!
Another reason was that I wanted to improve my employability. I thought my CV/resume was boring to read, I felt I needed something extra, something a bit different.
With all this, I started drawing cartoons about testing early 2009 and ended up with around 20-30 cartoons, I submitted them all for review to the first STC magazine. I received such a great response from them that I decided to start this blog. Like they say… and the rest is history :o)
Here’s my updated CV, I had to remove some private information, but I think it looks much better than my old one…
Thank you all for following the blog and leaving comments. Initially I thought I would only run the blog for a few months, but due to the great response I decided that it was definitely worth continuing.
Some of my Highlights for the Tester Cartoon blog include:
- Over 30,000 direct visits to the site – that’s incredible :o)
- Cartoons printed in a number of magazines/newspapers/ebooks:
- STC: Issues 1, 2, 3, If I was a test case I would
- STP: Vol. 7 No. 5 and No. 6
- Many Cartoons translated into Russian
- The site is Number 32 in the charts!
- Cartoon Tester display stand at EuroSTAR 2010
- Received a hard copy of I am a bug
- Accepted into the w-a-t group.
- Got free entry to ExpoQA
- Cartoons displayed in Test Conference in Croatia
- Mr. Fails
Wow! What a list! Thank you again for all the great support I’ve received that has made the above a reality.
Recently, a few people have asked when and why I started drawing cartoons about testing. I think some of them were asking ‘Why? Why are you wasting your time drawing stupid cartoons?” but I think others were genuinely interested!
There are a number of reasons why…
One was that I wanted to get more involved in the wider testing industry. One option was to start a typical blog but I knew I wasn’t great at writing articles.
I knew that I had ‘some’ skill at drawing cartoons. I used to draw cartoons about my wife and I and our relationship together. Some of the cartoons made her laugh, so I thought I was unto something as she’s my toughest critic!
Another reason was that I wanted to improve my employability. I thought my CV/resume was boring to read, I felt I needed something extra, something a bit different.
With all this, I started drawing cartoons about testing early 2009 and ended up with around 20-30 cartoons, I submitted them all for review to the first STC magazine. I received such a great response from them that I decided to start this blog. Like they say… and the rest is history :o)
Here’s my updated CV, I had to remove some private information, but I think it looks much better than my old one…
Monday, January 10, 2011
YEAST HOIST #15 now available in CA & beyond!
Yeast Hoist #15 is now for sale in Los Angeles and across California! - including most BevMo locations (as well as online!). It is also available in New York, Texas, Minnesota, Georgia and South Carolina! Here is a list of all locations!Friday, January 7, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Dokonjō Gaeru
ど根性ガエル Dokonjō Gaeru or "The Gutsy Frog." La Rana Valiente in Mexico. I recently spent a week in Tokyo and watched this every morning. Really cute show with tons of appeal and great exaggerated poses. It was animated by TMS and I believe Miyazaki worked on it.
I haven't been able to find episodes online either to purchase or download. I ordered a dvd from Japan, but it turned out to be a second series from the 1980's and the drawings are really sloppy compared to the original, which ran from 1972 to 1974.
Can anyone help me find this?
I haven't been able to find episodes online either to purchase or download. I ordered a dvd from Japan, but it turned out to be a second series from the 1980's and the drawings are really sloppy compared to the original, which ran from 1972 to 1974.
Can anyone help me find this?
Tiger by Bud Blake
Incredible drawing and staging. Blake is very underrated as a cartoonist. Tiger didn't have the warmth, wit or humanity of Peanuts, but it was a still a simple, fun strip with beautiful drawing. He can sure put shapes together.
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