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  Part of our guide to licensing cartoons as an author (coming soon) Who handles image permissions for the cartoons in a book, the author or the publisher? Whoever your publishing contract says, and you should settle it before anyone buys a license. At CartoonStock we license cartoons to authors, publishers and the picture researchers...

  Part of our guide to licensing cartoons as an author (coming soon) Want to use cartoons in a self-published book? You can, and you license them the same way a publisher does. At CartoonStock, a self-published title gets exactly the same license as a book from a large publishing house. The only difference is...

  Cartoons in church life can do far more than raise a smile. They can draw people to the notice that matters in the bulletin, or open a sermon. They can also brighten the weekly email, thank a volunteer team, get a small group talking or mark a season of the church year. This guide...

  The best way to use cartoons in church bulletins is simple: one cartoon per issue, placed next to the item it supports, big enough to read and chosen to match the message. Do that and people start reading your bulletin all the way to the back page. This guide covers where a cartoon works...

Last month’s contest featured a drawing by Isabella Bannerman, who worked on Pee-wee’s Playhouse and is, along with five other women (including New Yorker cartoonist Mary Lawton), one of the panel artists for the syndicated daily comic strip “Six Chix.”  Isabella’s drawing is set in a restaurant in hell, where a demon waiter is holding...