Apparently copyright infringement knows no bounds, as the amazingly talented caricaturist / cartoonist Tom Richmond points out in his blog.

The gist of it is, some Indian gal named Ruchika has made a few how-to videos showing how to create a caricature - only the art she’s using is actually that of artist Kirk Bjorndahl.

It’s stunning (in a terrible way) to see this kind of rampant theft take place. I watched the videos myself - they were horrible. Ruchika doesn’t teach - she merely rambles a lot of nonsense - providing no guidance (technical or otherwise) on how to draw the character.

But, of course she can’t, because she didn’t really draw it.

-Krishna

Here are the pencils for this week’s strip.

-Krishna

Some quick sketches for the evening…

enjoy!

-Krishna

As a designer, I can relate the frustrations of the designer in this video. Design by committee is a recipe for disaster.

-Krishna

Top 5 Ways to be a Jerk Cartoonist: “

1) Make sure you promise an unreasonable deadline you think the client wants, and then deliver late. Over-promise and under-deliver. Nice!

2) Take the tiniest germ of humor you can find and squeeze a cartoon out of it by writing an excessively long caption to explain why this is so funny. Brevity is wit my arse.

3) Ask for other cartoonists’ markets and contacts. Nothing endears you to a professional more than asking to see their books.

4) Argue print vs. web and refuse to consider other points of view. You know you’re right – make sure we all know it too.

5) Beg for criticism, and then explain why it’s wrong. Classy!

*I’d add a number 6) - Ignore your e-mails from your audience

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(Via Andertoons Cartoon Blog.)

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Drawn while baby-sitting my daughter this afternoon…

-Krishna

I’m doing the same spiel over on PC Weenies.

Basically the jist of it is:

I’m looking for some input here - be brutally honest with me so I can know the truth. What do you like about Uncubed? What would you change? This could be about anything related to the comic. Anything related to the ‘toon is fair game.

I just want to take thing to a new level - to make awesome comics and garner more readers and more traffic. Having some insight on what readers like and don’t like will help me understand my readership and give them more of what they want.

Your feedback is immensely appreciated.

-Krishna

P.S. Where should I start targeting the comic? Any good websites that would be receptive to my comics?