Podcast appearances and mentions of leigh rubin

Hometown Radio 06/11/24 4p: Leigh Rubin and Kane Lynch discuss comics and comic strips

Mark interviews Leigh Rubin about 40 years of his Rubes® cartoons and his latest book THINK LIKE A CARTOONIST. Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments from recent episodes, and a word from this episode's sponsor. Learn more about this self-publishing/WIDE-publishing focused cruise. In the interview Mark and Leigh talk about: The fact that in 2024 Leigh is celebrating 40 years of producing Rubes® cartoons Some of the things that have changed since Leigh first started writing the cartoons - such as the way he delivers the daily cartoons The tools that haven't changed over the years, such as the drawing instruments he uses How far in advance the daily cartoons need to be sent in for syndication The fact that Leigh rarely ever takes a day off from drawing something new for the cartoon Leigh's book THINK LIKE A CARTOONIST and the story behind it The various types of essays that appear in this book Leigh's Cartoonist Pledge (inspired by the Boy Scout pledge) The ease of sharing cartoons on social media without any compensation given to the artist What a "workaround" is for cartooning The challenges of when humor doesn't age well because of changing sensitivities Testing the cartoons and deciding not to use certain ones that don't hit just right - (and the big stack of un-used cartoons that Leigh never submitted because they weren't funny enough) And more . . .   After the interview Mark reflects on the idea of what Leigh calls a "workaround" and how a similar thing might apply to writers in general as well as the idea of testing cartoons and not publishing them unless the hit right.   Links of Interest: Leigh Rubins Website / Rubes Cartoons Think Like a Cartoonist (RIT Press Website) EP 152 - Drawing Inspiration with Cartoonist Leigh Rubin Dramatic Exit (YouTube Short Inspired by one of Leigh's cartoons) EP 316 - Free Your Inner Non-Fiction Writer with Johanna Rothman ScribeCount (Mark's Affiliate Link) DropCap Marketplace  Use coupon STARK20 to get 20% off Cruising Writers Buy Mark a Coffee Patreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries The Relaxed Author Buy eBook Direct Buy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for Authors An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores Wide for the Win Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story) A Canadian Werewolf in New York Stowe Away (Novella) Fear and Longing in Los Angeles Fright Nights, Big City Lover's Moon Hex and the City Only Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard   Leigh Rubin is an accomplished author and cartoonist. He has written more than 20 books. 2024 will mark the 40th anniversary of Leigh's internationally syndicated cartoon, Rubes®, which is distributed by Creators Syndicate to hundreds of newspapers and media outlets worldwide. His work has been featured in film, television, and advertising. Leigh also enjoys a busy schedule giving thought-provoking and entertaining presentations on art and creativity at conferences, as well as professional organizations all around the country. In 2018 Leigh began serving at Rochester Institute of Technology as the college's first Cartoonist-in-Residence.   The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Today we celebrate humor and creativity with accomplished author and cartoonist, Leigh Rubin. An author of more than 20 books, 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of Leigh's internationally syndicated cartoon, Rubes®, which is distributed by Creators Syndicate to hundreds of newspapers and media outlets worldwide. His work has been featured in film, television, and advertising. In 2018 Leigh began serving at Rochester Institute of Technology as the college's first Cartoonist-in-Residence. //Draft2Digital is where you start your Indie Author Career//  Looking for your path to self-publishing success? Draft2Digital is the leading ebook publisher and distributor worldwide. We'll convert your manuscript, distribute it online, and support you the whole way—and we won't charge you a dime.  We take a small percentage of the royalties for each sale you make through us, so we only make money when you make money. That's the best kind of business plan.  • Get started now: https://draft2digital.com/• Learn the ins, the outs, and the all-arounds of indie publishing from the industry experts on the D2D Blog: https://Draft2Digital.com/blog  • Promote your books with our Universal Book Links from Books2Read: https://books2read.com  Make sure you bookmark https://D2DLive.com for links to live events, and to catch back episodes of the Self Publishing Insiders Podcast.

Anita's guest is Cartoonist and Creator of Rubes, Leigh Rubin. Produced by Jim Richards

What does it take to be a cartoonist?  Leigh Rubin is an accomplished author and cartoonist.  He has written over 20 books. 2022 marks the 38th anniversary of Leigh's internationally syndicated cartoon, Rubes®, which is now, distributed by Creators Syndicate to hundreds newspapers and media outlets worldwide.

BONUS! Episode featuring cartoonist Leigh Rubin! Leigh shares a glimpse into the “wonderful world of Rubes,” with some thoughts on writing comedy daily, finding the humor angle, and more! Find...

This week, Leigh Rubin, creator of the daily comic RUBES, talks about the challenge of creating something new every day and how you can’t wait for inspiration when your mortgage is dependent on it. He breaks down his process of daily action which he says is necessary to deliberately develop a creative practice. We discuss constructing an idea to achieve maximum impact and minimum verbiage: a balance between keeping an idea fresh and working it to death. To stand out amount the noise, Leigh muses about finding ways around the established systems and gatekeepers, and how there are no rules to getting your work in front of the people who need to see it. Lastly, we dig into the patience required when chasing your dream and not exhausting yourself because the world isn’t moving at your expected pace.Show Notes:Creators Syndicate Drawing Inspiration (TV Pilot)Comic discussed during the episode - HERE

Mark interviews cartoonist Leigh Rubin of Rubes® the internationally syndicated single-panel cartoon that he has been creating since November 1984. Prior to the interview, Mark shares a few comments from recent episodes and Twitter, and the says a word about this episode's sponsor, Findaway Voices. You can learn more about how you can get your work distributed to retailers and library systems around the world at starkreflections.ca/Findaway. In his personal update, Mark shares: What he is doing on the Obsessions anthology project A forthcoming $0.99 price-drop promo for Stowe Away, the latest release in his Canadian Werewolf series. How he "met" Leigh after creating a short dad joke video entitled "Dramatic Exit" inspired by one of his Rubes® cartoons. In their conversation, Mark and Leigh talk about: The two things that Leigh excelled at in Kindergaten. Napping and cartooning. Pushing the boundaries in his cartoons from those earliest days. The encouragement received from his third grade teacher, Mrs. Mullin. The two kinds of people an artist usually remembers: the people who encourage you, and the people who don't How seeing a line of greeting cards from Sandra Boynton were part of the inspiration for Leigh to start his own greeting card company All of the work "hitting the street" involved in selling greeting cards, including buying space in industry trade shows, having racks built, and making numerous sales calls Learning about industry practices such as retail slotting fees for prime merchandising space in a store The powerful and positive impression made from a series of terrible musical puns that Leigh drew up, and how that led to Leigh's first book, which migrated into three volumes called: Notable Quotes, Encore, and Amusing Arrangements Selling more than 40,000 copies of his books without having a major publisher or distributor for them The evolution of greeting cards to books, books to a book signing, and a book signing to a daily cartoon gig at a local publisher, which eventually led to being a syndicated cartoonist Working through numerous and consistent rejections with the queries that Leigh continued to send out, until finally picking up 150 different newspapers to start carrying his cartoons Why Leigh investigated the college newspaper scene, and the benefit and down-side of that market Discovering Creators Syndicate and the initial nice personal rejection Leigh received from them Leigh's view that not all rejections are a bad thing The pilot episode of a television show that Leigh created with Ryan Johnson (a movie and television show break-away prop maker) called Drawing Inspiration which is a behind-the-scenes look at their weird jobs that depend entirely on creativity How, once the daily blank cartoon sheet is taped down to Leigh's desk, a cartoon must appear, whether it takes 10 minutes or 5 hours. The cancellation of so many events, and migrating into a virtual event, which Leigh had just done the evening before this interview (link in show notes) How two different cartoonists adapted the same topic/theme into different cartoons (as demonstrated on the aforementioned virtual event) The importance of leaving something to the reader's imagination in humor Why big brands should support artists instead of only sports stars because they are constantly running marathons And more . . .   After the interview, Mark reflects Leigh's discipiline of sitting at the empty page for 5 minutes or 5 hours, whatever it takes, the persistence he showed in the fact of rejection, and looking for specific niche markets to break into with his work. Mark also shares the opportunity for people who comment on the episode show notes at starkreflections.ca to win one of Leigh's signed books.   Links of Interest: Leigh Rubin's Website Rubes Cartoons Facebook Rubes Cartoons Instagram Rubes Cartoons Twitter Drawing Inspiration - Pilot Episode When Cartoon Worlds Collide Dramatic Exit - Short Dad Joke Film inspired by Leigh's cartoon Episode 151 - Wellness, Well Played with Jennifer Buchanan Mark's Feed The Obsession Kickstarter Mark's Canadian Werewolf Series This Time Around (Book 0) A Canadian Werewolf in New York (Book 1) Stowe Away (Book 1.5) Fear and Longing in Los Angeles (Book 2) Findaway Voices Books2Read Draft2Digital Wide for the Win Submission Form Patreon for Stark Reflections   The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

One of the most widely syndicated cartoonist in the world, Leigh Rubin, steps aboard the animated bus to chat about the creation of his comic, "Rubes". From his upbringing to his success, Leigh's story is both compelling and inspiring. Listen in an absorb all you can from the mind of an artistic genius!

Part 2 of my interview with cartoonist Leigh Rubin during which we discuss how he got into cartooning and went on to become a successful syndicated cartoonist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of my interview with cartoonist Leigh Rubin during which we discuss how he got into cartooning and went on to become a successful syndicated cartoonist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natalie and Stan Rubin were the first Jewish couple ever married on national TV, but it almost never happened. Hear clips from the television show and an interview with their son "Rubes" cartoonist Leigh Rubin. Also learn about the first toilet ever flushed on-screen in a mainstream movie. Retrosponsor: Hudson Paper Napkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natalie and Stan Rubin were the first Jewish couple ever married on national TV, but it almost never happened. Hear clips from the television show and an interview with their son "Rubes" cartoonist Leigh Rubin. Also learn about the first toilet ever flushed on-screen in a mainstream movie. Retrosponsor: Hudson Paper Napkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Associate Professor of Comic Studies Dan Worden talks with RIT visiting cartoonist in residence, Leigh Rubin, the creator of Rubes, about his path from advertising arts major to internationally syndicated cartoonist. Read a transcript of this podcast: https://www.rit.edu/news/pdfs/Cartoonist_In_Residence_Podcast_Transcript.pdf

Four+ people who draw way better than anyone I know. Hear Tom, Alvarez, Leigh, and Naters (with perspective from Jam) talk about professional doodling and how there's a lot more to it than you had any idea. See also why fiberglass cows shouldn't surf. -------------------- Like the show? Please review on iTunes to help others find the podcast! http://itunes.careerdayshow.com.  If you'd like to be considered for the show, go to http://careerdayshow.com/stories.  Say hi on Twitter (and find calls for specific interviews): https://twitter.com/CarissaWeiser.  -------------------- Special thanks to Tom Manning, Chris Alvarez, Leigh Rubin, Jam, and Naters for sharing their stories with the world. Music: "An Opus in Ab" by Blue Dot Sessions "Endless Story About Sun and Moon" by Kai Engel "Idea" by Kai Engel "Moment of Magic" by Scott Holmes "A Wee Tipple" by Scott Holmes "Arcade Paradise" by Scott Holmes "Duck Pond" by Scott Holmes "Inspiring Corporate" by Scott Holmes "Motivational" by Scott Holmes "Old Oak Tree" by Scott Holmes "Sweet Dreams" by Scott Holmes "When I'm With You" by Scott Holmes  

Animal Radio® celebrates 400 shows with special guest hosts, IRON CHEF CAT CORA, Rubes cartoonist LEIGH RUBIN, actor/host STEVEN LEE, and best-selling author MICHAEL SCHAFFER. Iron Chef Cat Cora may be in the news for her somewhat 'different' pregnancy with her partner, who is also preggers. Besides having an animal name, what brings her to Animal Radio®? She reminds us it's 2009 and we still have pirates and we're still clubbing baby seals to death. The only good part of any newspaper are the comics, most notably, the bizarre humor of RUBES. The creator uses a lot of animals to express his sick and twisted view of life. Leigh Rubin is back for his third time on Animal Radio®. Steven Lee was on Law and Order and As the World Turns, now he's the host of HGTV's first 'animal-related' show, Leader of the Pack. This controversial show comes off the shelves for the reality audience. Imagine Survivor meets The Bachelor and Big Brother, 'doggie-style.' Eight dogs start. One remains. Michael Schaffer authored the best-selling book One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food. The book chronicles and quantifies our love for dogs and pets in general. Don't let the long title fool you. Your parents never let the dog in bed, no less the house. Why are we so different? And do we have to talk about the new First Dog, Bo Obama? We do it anyway. What a little cutie. How much do you think Bo's poop will be going for on e-Bay? The whole gang is here. Vinnie wants to know what is up with Pet Trusts? Dr. Debbie won't stop until all listener questions are answered. 'Ladybug' the Studio Stunt Dog starts agility training with Pamela Spock. More at AnimalRadio.com.