Ha! Nice. I can say the same about some of my previous jobs before going full time with cartooning.
My A/B test on peoples' reaction when you say "Cartoonist" vs. "Artist" is a good litmus test for the cultural reverence for fine art vs. cartoons. Sometimes they assume you work for DC/Marvel as a comic artist. (But even then; they aren't …
Ha! Nice. I can say the same about some of my previous jobs before going full time with cartooning.
My A/B test on peoples' reaction when you say "Cartoonist" vs. "Artist" is a good litmus test for the cultural reverence for fine art vs. cartoons. Sometimes they assume you work for DC/Marvel as a comic artist. (But even then; they aren't aware that there are pencil, inkers, colourists etc.) They may smile and say "That sounds like a fun job!" when you say "Cartoonist", but when you leave it at "Artist" they make a different assessment of you, professionally-- despite 'Artist' being a perfectly true answer.
(Note: I may be biased as I'm only really testing this on New Yorkers.)
I used to work in local government in London. Not the worst job but not what I'd trained for. I was Issuing licences for skips, cranes and scaffolding... I absolutely loathed telling people what I did. Now when I tell people about my tooning work (and I know all work has its elements of shite) I just use it as a gathering info exercise of people for my future cartoons 😄 Always building my internal morgue files to use for a later date.
Ha! Nice. I can say the same about some of my previous jobs before going full time with cartooning.
My A/B test on peoples' reaction when you say "Cartoonist" vs. "Artist" is a good litmus test for the cultural reverence for fine art vs. cartoons. Sometimes they assume you work for DC/Marvel as a comic artist. (But even then; they aren't aware that there are pencil, inkers, colourists etc.) They may smile and say "That sounds like a fun job!" when you say "Cartoonist", but when you leave it at "Artist" they make a different assessment of you, professionally-- despite 'Artist' being a perfectly true answer.
(Note: I may be biased as I'm only really testing this on New Yorkers.)
I used to work in local government in London. Not the worst job but not what I'd trained for. I was Issuing licences for skips, cranes and scaffolding... I absolutely loathed telling people what I did. Now when I tell people about my tooning work (and I know all work has its elements of shite) I just use it as a gathering info exercise of people for my future cartoons 😄 Always building my internal morgue files to use for a later date.
Outstanding.