cartoons for idea people
Single panel cartoon, launched by the great Creators Syndicate in April, 1994, and mysteriously still managing to run in hundreds of newspapers and websites, including the The Washington Post, Detroit Free Press and The Globe & Mail.
For an archive dating back to 2003 that is searchable by keyword, please visit Cartoonist Group HERE.
For today's cartoon, please go HERE.
Meanwhile, here's a small sampling of some of the most requested and shared panels.
This area will be updated and changed regularly, so suggestions welcome!
All my cartoons - both Speed Bump and Parade magazine panels - are available as color prints on heavy card stock for $50.
Original art, if not already sold, is also available for $250. Those are black & white, but a free color print is included.
Both prints and original art may be signed and/or inscribed any way you like, since they are sent directly from my attic studio.
Just hit the Contact link, let me know what you're after, and I'll put on my mail carrier outfit.
If you're interested in reprinting my cartoons in your publication, on your website, on your products, or in a PowerPoint, drop me an email via the Contact link. Rates vary, but my pricing is flexible.
Happy to grant permission to translate these into other languages, too, as you can see...
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Full color book published by Henry Holt in 2015 collects every dog cartoon drawn up to that point, including both Speed Bump and Parade magazine panels, plus a large pawful of BarkBox illustrations.
Smartly edited by Christy Ottaviano and beautifully designed by April Ward, the book also contains personal stories, fun facts, and a few famous pups.
DAPT may be purchased HERE.
A Speed Bump & Slingshot Misadventure series is a chapter book trilogy about a couple of bird buddies who get themselves into, um, "situations."
This School Library Journal review sums it up nicely:
"This first chapter book series from Coverly, an internationally syndicated cartoonist whose “Speed Bump” cartoons appear in more than 400 newspapers, and the winner of the prestigious Reuben Award for Best Cartoonist, focuses on the travails of a bird named Speed Bump. Speed Bump’s brother is the illustrious Early Bird, the one who always gets the worm. This isn’t Speed Bump’s only problem. He has a hard time waking up, his wings are tiny, his tail feathers are short, and his head is larger than his body. Fortunately, he has a great friend, Slingshot, who knows how to brighten Speed Bump’s days. Together they have a life-changing adventure deep in the nighttime forest. Filled with subtle irony, wordplay, and gentle pokes at life, the text is accompanied by appealingly large, cartoon-style, black-and-white line drawings. VERDICT This story will have students laughing out loud and reluctant readers asking for the sequel."
All three books are 120-130+ pages and written for kids ages 7-11.
NotLW may be purchased HERE.
NotLS may be purchased HERE.
NotLZB is available 10/17 and may be pre-ordered HERE.
Picture books I've illustrated, both written by the brilliant Jim Tobin, both edited by the amazing Christy Ottaviano, both published by the wise people at Macmillan.
If you'd like to purchase these, please try your local bookstore first. If you don't have a local bookstore, well, that's a sad thing, so here are some links where these may be purchased online:
Illustrating now, to be published in 2018: How to Care For Your T-Rex, written by the renowned children's book author, Ken Baker. Stay tuned for details. But not too tuned, since it'll be late 2017 before I can post illustrations. Enjoy your summer and I'll get back to you.
There are four collections of Speed Bump cartoons: A Collection of Cartoon Skidmarks (2000, Andrews McMeel), Cartoons for Idea People (2004, ECW), Just One %$#@ Speed Bump After Another (2005, ECW), and Laughter is the Best Medicine (2014, Sellers).
The first three are out of print, but you can still find them at the usual places online or on the not-so-black market.
Besides family and friends, my three favorite things in the world might be cartoons, coffee, and beer - and not necessarily in that order, depending on the time of day.
Creating the Java Stout label for Bell's Beer in Kalamazoo was the perfect storm of those three things.
Hell Hath No Fury was also a blast, and there are more beers in that series coming soon...
Cartoons that appeared in Parade magazine are also available as prints.
For more samples, click HERE.
I've only had a few cartoons in The New Yorker, but this one was turned into a mini animation, which I really like. Not sure the gag works as well as the static panel, but you can decide for yourself HERE.
