www.ncs-glc.com is the website of the Great Lakes Chapter of
the National Cartoonists Society
GLC OFFICERS
EARL MUSICK - Organizing Chairman POLLY KEENER - Past Chairman MARK SZORADY - Past Chairman STEVE BOREMAN - Past Chairman
News items, member announcements, general inquiries, please contact Craig. In case you didn't know, the print versions of The GLyph, infrequent as they are, can be downloaded to your computer as pdf's. Adobe Acrobat Reader or some other fiendish device is requires to read those things. If you don't have one, you can download it from the link below. As I continue to work on this thing, I keep learning a few tricks of the trade. The issue 1 download, which previously had been a whopping giant file, is now a very manageable 1/3 of its previous size. So you can now download without your computer exploding. Anyway, there have been a grand total of two, supposedly quarterly, issues to date. Have a ball! DOWNLOAD GLYPH VOL.1 ISSUE 2 as .pdf DOWNLOAD GLYPH VOL.1 ISSUE 1 as .pdf Download Free Adobe Acrobat Reader 8/16/04 SITE UPDATES There have been a number of incremental updates on the site over the past few weeks. For instance: You may have noticed the "Comic Strip Quote of the Day" on the opening screen. Vaguely philosophical-sounding stuff, pulled from comic strips anywhere and everywhere. That's just harmless fun. The Amazon Associates account has been set up for the chapter, so the bookstore can be considered fully functional as of now. That means we'll continue to add new member items as they become available. As a matter of fact, many new items have been added for purchase. Sales made through that page benefit the chapter and help defray costs of the website. A few GLyph banners have been made available, in case you want to add a link to the website to your own site. The Member Directory has been updated with a few new members, but we're waiting for you to add your info to make the directory more complete. On the Comics Page, Ziggy has been added to the lineup, since its omission thus far was an oversight. For Better Or Worse has been removed, as Lynn Johnston is no longer with our chapter. And, Blondie has been included in recognition of new member Dan Davis' gig as assistant on that strip. A number of news items have been added to the Newsblurts page. But that section gets updated whenever news comes in, so you should be checking it regularly anyway. If you have news to report, please send it HERE. These are relatively minor updates, and there will be more as the occasion arises. Major updates will happen quarterly, in conjunction with the release of the print version of the newsletter. Speaking of which... THE GLYPH - PRINT EDITION After many delays and bug fixes, the first issue of the print version of The GLyph is in the mail. If you don't get one by the end of the millennium, please let me know HERE. You can also download the thing in .pdf format, with a click of your mouse on the link below: DOWNLOAD GLYPH VOL.1 ISSUE 2 as .pdf DOWNLOAD GLYPH VOL.1 ISSUE 1 as .pdf 6/18/04 Thanks to the many contributors of photos, stories, artwork, news items, time, effort, etc. who help make this site fly. Special thanks to Wes Alexander, Mark Szorady and Don Lee, previous editors of the Great Lakes Cartoonicator, out from which sprang (like that face-hugger thing in 'Alien') the GLyph. While you're here I recommend you not pass up the cartoon gallery of vintage work by Roy Hearn, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The more time I spent scanning and cleaning up these drawings for Ed Black's feature article, the more I grew to appreciate this artist's style. Speaking of Ed, his cartoonist histories have always been a part of the GLC newsletter. For the reinvented newsletter (paper 'n' staples version as well as the online version of the GLyph), an editorial choice was made to focus exclusively on cartoonists from the Great Lakes region. It wasn't until we were hip deep in putting together the new issue that we realized that only the first part of Ed's multi-part article on Walt Disney had appeared in The Great Lakes Cartoonicator when the new approach was adopted, effectively leaving Disney hanging. To make amends, we're continuing "Walt Disney: How He Did It" here on the online GLyph as a special feature. Part One is rerun from the Cartoonicator, and Part Two appears here, for the first time anywhere. Part Three will be along soon. As a bit of good fortune, the piece now contains new photos of historic Disney-related sites, taken by Ed during the Reuben weekend in Kansas City. - CRB |
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GLyph BANNERS Here (that is, below this box) are a few banners, to allow you to link your own website to The GLyph! Why would you want to do that? While the GLyph is for our members, it's also not a bad thing to invite the public at large to see what's going on amongst us. And, a little cross-pollination among our sites helps us all build a little bit of an audience. We have nothing to hide, do we? Well, er, never mind that. The more people looking at our work, the better for all of us, is my theory. Not to mention, we have that bookstore section, and it would be nice if we gave somebody outside the club a chance to whip out their Visa cards once in a while. So: Copy a banner and add it to your site and link it to: |
