Funny Cartoons Save Lives (This is Not a Joke)
If I told you looking at newspaper or Internet cartoons might save your life or build your immune system, you might be looking for me a good doctor.
Ironically it is good doctors who agree with this philosophy.
I started Londons Times Cartoons in 1997 after my mom died.
I did not have a lot to start with, as far as financing, but had a lot of creative ideas, and was fortunate enough to build an illustrative and management team who knew what they were doing.
When everything came together, from nothing, and it took a life of its own, it was like magic.
It made me realize, maybe for the first time, at age 43, that if the common man or woman puts their mind to something, they can do it, regardless of social status, education, gender or race.
It simply takes focus, a plan, and the guts to work the plan.
When I say guts, I don't mean at all that one is a hero for trying it.
It is only that I have found in my lifetime, that dreams are "a dime a dozen".
Everyone has a book in them, a huge building, a creative venture, or some other dream.
More often than not, it stays with them, in their heads, until the very end.
To me, that is a tragedy.
A person can achieve anything, and often it takes the help of others.
I will give you an example.
Over the years, I had written literally thousands of cartoons.
Though I could draw fairly well, not well enough to meet the standards of what I wanted in a cartoon.
Thanks to the Internet, I found a way to recruit some of the best illustrators of cartoons on the Internet.
They were willing to take on this project with me, still in its seed/dream stage, based on the quality of the concepts which would later become cartoons.
By the end of the first year, I had possibly 100 cartoons up on a free sub-domain.
I could not even afford my own domain at the time.
Pop-up ads ruled the site and visitors usually got angry and left as soon as they arrived.
But I persisted.
And I use that word because of how important it is.
Persistence is probably as important, if not more important, than talent and financial backing.
Because of persistence, not just mine but that of my creative team, within ten years, we built Londons Times Cartoons and 11 e-stores.
We now have over 8000 color cartoons and almost 100,000 licensed image products that sell well.
Our main website, Londons Times Cartoons, lures about 4.
5 million visitors a year.
I look back in amazement.
I cannot believe it all happened in such a short time-span as a decade.
But it did.
And it did while I was disabled.
I had been employed since age 12 and became disabled in my early forties due to depression and heart disease.
During that time I also went back to school and finished three years in business.
I am on break now, taking care of other health issues, and then plan to return to finish and work on my masters.
Like I said, think it, plan it, do it, and it is yours.
It's the American dream and it still exists.
Ironically it is good doctors who agree with this philosophy.
I started Londons Times Cartoons in 1997 after my mom died.
I did not have a lot to start with, as far as financing, but had a lot of creative ideas, and was fortunate enough to build an illustrative and management team who knew what they were doing.
When everything came together, from nothing, and it took a life of its own, it was like magic.
It made me realize, maybe for the first time, at age 43, that if the common man or woman puts their mind to something, they can do it, regardless of social status, education, gender or race.
It simply takes focus, a plan, and the guts to work the plan.
When I say guts, I don't mean at all that one is a hero for trying it.
It is only that I have found in my lifetime, that dreams are "a dime a dozen".
Everyone has a book in them, a huge building, a creative venture, or some other dream.
More often than not, it stays with them, in their heads, until the very end.
To me, that is a tragedy.
A person can achieve anything, and often it takes the help of others.
I will give you an example.
Over the years, I had written literally thousands of cartoons.
Though I could draw fairly well, not well enough to meet the standards of what I wanted in a cartoon.
Thanks to the Internet, I found a way to recruit some of the best illustrators of cartoons on the Internet.
They were willing to take on this project with me, still in its seed/dream stage, based on the quality of the concepts which would later become cartoons.
By the end of the first year, I had possibly 100 cartoons up on a free sub-domain.
I could not even afford my own domain at the time.
Pop-up ads ruled the site and visitors usually got angry and left as soon as they arrived.
But I persisted.
And I use that word because of how important it is.
Persistence is probably as important, if not more important, than talent and financial backing.
Because of persistence, not just mine but that of my creative team, within ten years, we built Londons Times Cartoons and 11 e-stores.
We now have over 8000 color cartoons and almost 100,000 licensed image products that sell well.
Our main website, Londons Times Cartoons, lures about 4.
5 million visitors a year.
I look back in amazement.
I cannot believe it all happened in such a short time-span as a decade.
But it did.
And it did while I was disabled.
I had been employed since age 12 and became disabled in my early forties due to depression and heart disease.
During that time I also went back to school and finished three years in business.
I am on break now, taking care of other health issues, and then plan to return to finish and work on my masters.
Like I said, think it, plan it, do it, and it is yours.
It's the American dream and it still exists.
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