Today, we speak with Richard Feldmann, a cartoonist whose work appeared in The New Yorker and other publications. We dive into the world of cartooning and the business of it during our discussion.
Richard grew up in New Jersey, lived in Princeton and New York City. He spent twenty years working on Wall Street, but as he says, he eventually came to his senses and focused on work with non-profits and on building his business - Cartoon Arbor Studio.
Richard currently lives in Ellsworth, Maine, near Acadia National Park.
Instagram: @richardfelmanncartoons
From the show:
“…And I have this theory that when I met you at the concert in Bar Harbor, if I had said, well, I won the Nobel Prize in physics last year and I've written three Prize winning novels and I'm a New Yorker cartoonist, all that other stuff would go away and you'd just say, Oh, you're a New Yorker cartoonist. That's so cool…”
“…my style is typically black and white. I'm starting to do more in color, but typically black and white. I do them with Micron pens, Indian gouaches, and then pencil shading to give it some depth. But they're mostly single panel. I love the idea of capturing that one moment, which is kind of the hard part of cartooning. You don't have three or four panels to set up the joke. Everything has to work right there in front of you immediately, or it doesn't work at all…”
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