Well, I live in a desert resort community in California and during the summer here the temperatures were approaching 115-degrees, and I realized it was time to get out of Dodge. So I jumped in my freeway car and headed over the mountain to San Diego. I figured I could hang out in old town, go to a few museums, walk on the waterfront, and just enjoy myself. Sometimes it's fun just to go and meet people at random, and over the years I've gotten pretty good at it with all my traveling. While I was in San Diego I met a business cartoonist for a large metro newspaper.
He had one of the coolest jobs in the world as far as I can see, but he said it was often hectic because he had to come up with a new cartoon, something that dealt with current events, but had a little bit of good old common sense wisdom attached. We got to talking, and then into brainstorming, and I came up with an idea for business cartoon.
A solo professional walks into a professional coaching business, and explains her problem. The solo professional has been having nightmares of endless paperwork, actually an avalanche falling on top of her, an avalanche of paperwork. The professional coach simply states; "I know how you feel," and behind them both is an actual avalanche of paperwork beginning to fall on both of them. And just before it comes crashing down the professional coach says; "at least yours is only a dream."
The business cartoonist said he likes the idea, but he told me that he had produced a similar cartoon years ago, which really didn't surprise me because he was such a creative person.
He told me that that was one of the problems he had was to make sure he didn't impede on other people's work or copyrights, or even their creative ideas and concepts. Even though he had original thoughts every single day of his life, he could never be sure that someone had already thought of it, or if some famous cartoonist had already published something very eerily similar. He could tell I was concerned that my idea wasn't an original, but he said it happens to him every day. In fact, he goes around checking to make sure no one has the same cartoon, but in doing so it also helps him get new ideas.
Because of that we talked about the reality and difficulty of coming up with original thoughts, innovations, concepts, or even new inventions that one might patent. He did hold a couple patents as well. The encounter was quite interesting, and when it comes to the animation, business cartooning is one of the few standout sectors of that industry which is fruitful enough to keep you gainfully employed. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Creativity Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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