Okay, the deadline has passed, and the number of submissions in our jury this year is about 30. A good number, don't you guys think? At any rate, we'll be ganging up in Atlanta on the last Saturday in March to give 'em a good going over. All you NCSers leave that day (and the appropriate travel time) open, y'hear?

Greg, your chairman

Jack Davis eflyerHere is the e-flyer for the 10th Annual Jack Davis Distinguished Visiting Aritst Lecture, to be held at the University of Georgia's Student Learning Center on March 7th. Look at that panel! Two chapter members (Davis and Luckovich), as well as Arnold Roth (who's always a hoot). If you can make this, you won't regret it...

Click on the image to view it in a pop-up window at full size!

Hello fellow SEC members! I am leading the coordination of our annual fall meeting for this coming October/November timeframe. I will once again be getting quotes on hotels, meeting rooms, etc. and working with the Chattanooga Visitors Bureau. Help me out by giving me some good dates and some no-no dates. Let's start by focusing on the Fri., Sat., Sun. dates beginning Oct. 3rd through Oct. 26th. Talk to me cartoonists!

Just as in the ancient Greek forum from which our little chat area rips off its name, there are heavy issues being weighed under CHAPTER BUSINESS > SECNCS stuff. Go there now and acquaint yourself with the issues and weigh in. It's so important and stolid, that it hardly feels like cartooning. See you there.

Since I was "denied access" to the Charlotte group forum page(or, more likely- I don't know HOW to access the page); I wanted to post the link to the Charlotte "By George" group web page with our most recent meeting update. Here it is: http://homepage.mac.com/artistgreg/ByGeorge.html

Dave

In the most recent newsletter, Greg tells how the Charlotte group surely must be "hiding" from newcomer Jack Chapman; one of the 'anchors" who recently moved here from the Memphis group.

If you have pictures from the Fall Meeting, don't be shy about putting them up here! All you need to do is click the "Add an article" link on the navigation bar at the top of the page.

You can upload pictures by clicking the picture icon just below the text box on the Story Submission page.

Let's see your pictures, folks!

I wonder if it's possible to play a game called 'six degrees to a comic book movie.' You start with any actor's name, and try to link it with a comic book movie or TV show.

Like, say, Larry Hagman...

Hmmm. Larry Hagman played JR Ewing alongside Patrick Duffy. Patrick Duffy played the Man From Atlantis, which was a comic book that Marvel put out.

"But, you say, that comic was based on the show, not the other way round, so it doesn't count..."

..time for me to update my way-out-of-date website and make it more cohesive. Over the years I had simply added to it in the old center-everything approach. And it looked like a hodgepode evolution of learn-as-you-go HTML coding. So today, it's officially implemented and there are two ways to get there-- http://www.jptoonist.com and the forward-to-there from http://www.jackpittman.net .

A buddy of mine created a MySpace account for a character in my comic strip. He did it because I was going to have that character mention his myspace account in a strip, and I wanted there to actually be one, because if there wasn't, I'm assured by people who've been cartooning longer than I have, somebody would write to tell me that they went looking and that Toby didn't have a MySpace account.

I thought of keeping a blog there, just for fun. There are two entries, I think.

Who's got the time for blogging?