Jason Chatfield
What have been your personal cartooning/comics highlights of 2012?
Personally
I've been very grateful to have served out my term as President of the
Australian Cartoonists' Association with a great team. I could have been
lumped with a board of people who don't want to get anything done, but
the great enthusiasm of people like Jules Faber and Peter Broelman have
been a huge support. The addition of Comic Book Artist as a category in
the Stanley Awards/Year Book/Membership Category is a very good
indication of where the club is headed; a broader, more accepting
association for not just newspaper cartoonists. Also taking the club
online was something I'm proud of having achieved. It's a step in the
right direction for the industry's future.
Who are some of the comics creators that you've discovered and enjoyed for the first time in 2012?
What
is something non-comics that you have enjoyed in 2012?
Glimpse,
was a side-project I worked on this year of which I'm very grateful to
have been asked to be a part of. It was a nice side-step from drawing a
red-headed 12 year old all day. In short, it was a show with some
incredibly talented Australian actors, with my work being projected and
animated up behind them as they performed. I made a process video here: https://vimeo.com/54274483
Have you implemented any significant changes to your working methods this year?
Yeah
- after spending most of my twenties as a night owl, working til 4
and waking at 12, I've gone to bed before midnight and got up early to
work. I'm about as productive as before, but I don't feel like crap. I
was dragging my body around and treating it like crap, slumped over the
computer screen all night. I've switched to working at a Standing Desk
now, with the Cintiq at about eye level. My neck pain has mysteriously
disappeared.... How bout that.
What are you looking forward to in 2013?
Having
more time to accept bigger projects, now that my time isn't as
committed to the role of President. It was a rewarding position to be
in, but it literally worked out to be like having a full time job for
two years, on top of everything else. I'm doing my first solo show as a
Stand-up in the 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Integrating the technology I learned doing Glimpse, I'm animating my
work live while doing comedy. Could bomb terribly, but I'm trying it
anyway. It'll be at 7:15pm at the Portland Hotel from 9th - 21st April
2013.
