It’s a new year, Spring is just around the corner and so is Cartoonists Northwest’s Toonie® Award Banquet! There is no more cherished, treasured, inspiring, beautiful, hand-crafted award (wrapped in a gift box) in all of CNW!  And there is no funner night to be had than our Toonie® Award Banquet!

Pat Moriarity will be our Guest Speaker in February.  That’s right - February. But, what about January, you ask?  Schedule Change:  There Will Be NO Cartoonists Northwest meeting in January other than our special event with Danny Fingeroth held on Saturday January 7th which you already attended or missed.

But it will be more than worth the wait.   Pat Moriarity is “a shimmering, glowing star in the cartooning firmament.”  He is a Cartoonist, Illustrator, Designer, Animator, Teacher at the Art Institute of Seattle.  When I worked at the Seattle Weekly, no other illustrator got the design staff as excited as when we were going to have work by Pat Moriarity in our newspaper.

Don’t miss out on your chance to meet the one and only Pat Moriarity at the February CNW meeting!   Did we mention there is no January meeting?

Richard Ryan Anderson gave a presentation to those attending the July 15th meeting of Cartoonists Northwest which will not be soon forgotten.

Ryan brought his laptop and ran an entertaining PowerPoint presentation of his life story, tips about website construction and marketing yourself.

Young aspiring artist Anderson’s first break came when his Mom sent a strip he’d created to Odyssey magazine. They were impressed with then-thirteen-year-old Ryan’s work and asked him to produce a feature for their back page. It was a thrill, at first, then Ryan came to find it “a major drag” staying inside to produce the cartoon while his friends were playing outside.

Later came animation classes in college. These were hand-drawn, frame-by-frame projects. Ryan ran a few slideshows of the work. (more…)