The Cartoon Days of Christmas (TCDC)!
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NCS member, Tim Ellis, is a cartoonist/ illustrator from New Albany, OH. Originally from North Carolina he started doing local editorial cartoons for the Kernersville News at the age of 16. He launched his studio, Ellistrations in 1986. He has produced work for Prudential Financial, BellSouth [when there was one] Pontiac, Saatchi & Saatchi, Pilot Life Insurance [when there was one], Children's Television Workshop, Highlights, and Boyds Mills Press among others. He has illustrated 13 children's books across trade, mass, and educational markets. His comic strip As Always has appeared in Discovery Girls magazine since 2002. A fan of golden age superheroes, in 2005 he published a tribute comic titled The Golden Page. He has licensed his character property STUNT PUNX to A&A Global for vending machine stickers and is currently pursuing licensing his concepts in the toy market. The full-time gig is Graphics Manager for Tween Brands Limited Too division. |
| Rich Diesslin is a freelance cartoonist, and host of The Cartoon Days of Christmas (TCDC). He is the creator and cartoonist of the ROK Comic series Out to Lunch; a cartoonist for The Springfield Paper; the cartoonist of the KNOTS or Not (or KNOTS) scouting cartoon series done for his web site and USScouts.org; and a cartoonist for the London's Times Cartoons. He has several book and e-books out including A Journey Through Christian Theology, Fortress Press (and the companion CD collection of color cartoons), and The Cartoon Gospel of John, a commentary in full color published by ACTA Publications (both with author William Anderson). His most recent e-book is Joseph: A Tale of Two Traditions. You can find out more about Rich on his "regular" home page. |
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Lan Hoang Vu (a.k.a. VAL) was born and grew up in Vung Tau, Vietnam. VAL began creating political cartoons since 1987 by drawing syndicated cartoons for various newspapers and magazines nationwide in Vietnam. VAL came to the USA in 1991 at which time he stopped drawing cartoons and began a career as a graphic designer. Ten years later, however, because of the tremendous impact the September 11th Terrorist Attacks in America had on his psyche, VAL immediately picked up his pens and started to draw political cartoons again. A graduate from the prestigious National University of Fine Art in Saigon, and from California State University in Long Beach, VAL is currently working as an Art Director at VAL Designs (www.valdesigns.com), a full service design firm based in Orange County, and stays abreast of international news by drawing daily cartoons for various publications including Viet Bao Daily News, Nguoi Viet Daily News, Viet Weekly... VAL's cartoons, usually with minimal wordings, convey multi-level of meanings depending on the perception of individual audience. His cartoons focus mostly on political events, ranging from international matters to local Vietnamese community issues. VAL's cartoons are displayed and collected in many websites, museums, galleries, and private collections including The Peace Museum (Chicago, USA), BC Space Gallery (Laguna Beach, California, USA), Collection of Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago City (USA), Collection of Ms. Kim Phuc - "The Girl in the Picture" - from Kim Foundation (USA), Cartoon Museum of East Europe (Ploiesti, Romania), Collection of Scientist Colin Pillinger, Head of Planetary and Space Sciences, Open University (UK), just to name a few. VAL has also been working with The New York Times Syndicate. |
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Larry Miller III of Peoria, Illiinois has been a published cartoonist since the publication of his first cartoon in August of 1974 in "Model Railroader Magazine" and he continued selling cartoons and illustrations to similar publications throughout the mid 1980s. Larry peaked his out put during his college years as the cartoonist "Mr. N" of the "Harbinger" (the Student Newspaper for Illinois Central College) where he attended part-time from 1975 through 1980. Such cartoon panels as "Captain Boredom", "Barlap 4" and "Reasons Why Students Commit Suicide" were regular features, along with half-page panels and editorial cartoons. Most of Larry's early works were created in the pen and ink format with marker and watercolor added after inking. He now scans his original ink renderings to computer and adds the color and shading in PhotoShop. He is currently producing cartoons for greeting cards as well as insurance, health and business internet newsletters. He produces panels and strips to individual order and can be reached by clicking the e-mail link above. |
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