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Outside Blog Minion Report: An Interview With George Hartman

Carolyn Tann-Starr

My interview with George Hartman regarding Desktop Publishing was not only educational, it was a tremendous bit of mad fun. He shared a wealth of useful information and was kind enough to bring one of his portfolios for me to peek at. Turns out it was full of the original art for one of his comic book publications and also contained material yet to be published. 

I was inspired, so I created two Outside Blog Minion Report covers. I couldn't figure out which one to use so I decided to use them both (LOL). I knew I had to, just for the chance to showcase a few of the artists he is working with. My fave illustration is the cheeky nurse on the left. Did you know the artist who created that tasty little treat is from Brazil?

Here's the line up of talent he tapped for the project: George Hartman, Jeff Sorrell, Greg Anderson, C. William Cooke, Elisa Feliz, Kotsu, Empro Maciek, Martin Malin, Chris Moshier, Richard Pech and Carolina Pontes. Turns out all you need to do is match the right writers with the right artists and send your scanned files off to a digital press. Am I over simplifying the process? Yes I am, but you have to start somewhere and I believe if I make it too complicated in this blog post you wont even try.

Feel free to e-mail George about his comic at George9448@aol.com and friend him on Facebook. If you are an artist who has never been published you may want to contact him about possible freelance work. I hear he has another project coming up. :-)

Turns out George is a social media maverick who uses his networking connections to work with artist all over the globe. It's a treat to watch him planning to put his publications together. Nothing like investing in yourself with a little help from a few  international friends to create something interesting to share with others. I figure if they can do RX Tales and have fun putting it together then I should do my version of Real Estate ones.

Can you imagine my version of a Real Estate comic book? How about one with a pull out section with listings advertised smack dab in the middle of it? Comics do take advertising from sponsors, you know (LOL). I wonder who my first victims sponsors will be...Maybe we should make House Hag the editor in chief with Ralph the Real Estate Dog in charge of sales and distribution (LOL). ;-)

We will be continuing this conversation... Seriously. ;-)