Now Speaking at Toonfest

Last week I wrote about the Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest event in Marceline, MO and how my chapter of the National Cartoonists Society is going to have our fall meeting at the event.

Since I wrote that and began organizing our chapter’s meeting I have been tapped by the Toonfest organizers to both emcee the speaker’s presentations on both Friday (Student Day) and Saturday as well as do my own speaking presentation on both days. Looks like I just went from a spectator to a spectacle for the weekend event. Here is a link to the speaker lineup for the event, and here is the tentative schedule of speakers on both days:

Friday, September 19- Student Audience

9:00-9:15     Welcome by Kaye Malins and Kick Off from Tom Richmond
9:15-9:45    Greg Evans
9:50- 10:20    Jan Eliot
10:25-10:55    Dave Coverly
11:00-11:45    Lunch
11:50-12:20    Michael Jantze
12:25-12:55    Tom Richmond
1:00-1:30    Wrap Up, questions, etc.

Saturday, September 20- General Public

12:30-12:45     Welcome by Kaye Malins and Kick Off from Tom Richmond
12:45-1:15    Greg Evans
1:20-1:50    Jan Eliot
1:55-2:25    Dave Coverly
2:30-2:45    Break/Drawings
2:50-3:20    Michael Jantze
3:25-3:55    Tom Richmond
4:00-5:00    Audience questions and Round table

My presentation will be a Powerpoint with some of my latest work, some anecdotes about working for MAD and some talk about drawing caricatures. I will also have a few pieces in the art show. If you are a reader of “The MAD Blog” and attending, come up and say hello.