AboutElgin Bolling Expertise Can answer questions about basic sketching and drawing, caricature drawing, and cartoon character creation and techniques. I cannot answer questions concerning 3D character creation and modeling.
Experience Professional cartoonist, and caricature artist since 1990.
Organizations Member of the National Caricaturist Network
Expert: Elgin Bolling Date: 7/11/2008 Subject: publishing my comic strip
Question Good Afternoon:
I was wondering if you could help me with finding a cartoon agent. I have received my copyright from the Library of Congress and I do not know how to go about this.
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Mary Pearson
(618) 616-0618
Answer Mary, congrats on taking your project this far. So many people have a dream of doing this but not the dedication to see it through. Let me start by saying that I don't know how you would go about getting a cartoon agent for your venture. I would even doubt that you need one, and heres why. First off, go to my post on www.subwaysurfer.blogspot.com and read about my friend, comic illustrator, Lar Desousa
Lar is the artist for the wildly successful strip, The Least I could do. When i last spoke to Lar, he was talking with TV execs about making this into a series for Canadian TV. Lar, and the writer of the strip did Not Have an agent, but initially published the strip online FIRST and developed a tremendous following and loyal fan base. They further published the strips in a number of college newspapers that probably did not pay well if at all, BUT furthered the strips popularity and fan base. Finally after doing it for a number of years they came out with a series of books that they printed themselves.
I saw Lar and his team at a recent comic convention in NYC and they were very popular with a legion of fans built on the WEB first.
Morrow of story is that you don't NEED an agent. in this computer age you can truly go for it YOURSELF. Get a website, a blog and develop a body of work and a following first.From what i understand, everything else will fall into place. I would also suggest going to specific indy comic forums websites and such and ask questions there. This particular area is beyond my expertise and the advice I'm giving you is general and limited. Get SPECIFICS from the experts who've DONE it. Good luck.
