The investment business is my Bruce Wayne to my Boon cartoonist secret identity . Something I've witnessed and anticipate to further be inevitable is software/robots will eventually make what I do as Bruce Wayne obsolete. It just follows one of the greatest truths in any endeavor, gaps in information/time/skill will be exploited until the gap narrows to nil and this is exactly what computer trading has done and should of done.
I had a conversation with a neighbor, he works as a CFO in the tech/IT industry, the other night, after seeing this 60 minutes piece on robots/software
and another piece on, a show who's name escapes me now, but similar premise robots/software replacing humans as pilots and soldiers. The use of machines and software to replace humans is only natural. Which leaves humans at trying to figure out what they can do better than machines/software to assure job security. And realized that cartooning was a safer industry than investment management, because creativity, as best I can tell can not be replicated by machines.
I advised my sons to both pursue some endeavors that could not be boiled down to repeatable processes that lead to a range of predictable outcomes. Because it is only those occupations that are safe from the machines.
But that all being said, so much of the traditional markets for cartoonist is drying up. More and more papers are disappearing, magazines are dying, yet the use of cartoons and illustration on the internet should be expanding. What has complicated the matter for me, is the market has gotten so huge and so diluted it is hard to identify where to go or how to approach it. You can see below my new widgets for Greeting Card Universe and Cafepress. I'm trying to create more traffic to raise exposure. Of course in the long run it is all in an attempt to replace my dependence on Bruce Wayne.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Valentine's Day Cards
These four cards have been loaded to Greeting Card Universe for Valentine's Day. They are awaiting approval but if you want one before they post to the store front let me know and I can request expedited approval. Clink on my GREETING CARDS link below to be taken to the store.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Photoshop CS6 and Bamboo Test
So I took yesterday's doodle and pulled it into Photoshop CS6 that I'm testing, and with my new Bamboo change it to what you see at the right.
There are a lot of things I didn't figure out, but feel like it was a pretty good test.
Greeting Cards - One Guy Drawing
Google Search Provides Gag Idea
This started as one doddle of the dude in the far upper left corner, all alone. I had no thoughts or intentions. Then I scribbled the other little dude who for some reason was prompted to ask a question. I recognized I had a misspelling and it evolved from there. I knew I was looking for sullen, and of course I was familiar with solemn, but when I did a google search on "sollum look" both sullen look and solemn look came up. Since the definitions were almost opposite - sad and serious, respectively I figured that was a nice play on words and this is what you get.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Golf - Fixing That Slice, Living In The Rough
On a golf course, those areas on either side of the fairways, the area my ball seems to gravitate to, is called the rough. You ask any golfer "Why is it called the rough?", and I'm sure you'll get a reply that involves something about the grass is rough cut over there, or the grass is higher and unkept. Without a doubt it will be something to do with the manicuring of the grass.
Perhaps the rough is called that because it is so rough to correct your swing to get that damn ball to travel straight. Or perhaps it is just a rough neighborhood where all the bad balls hang out.
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