{"id":1184,"date":"2019-03-06T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:20:42","slug":"wacom-behind-the-scenes-life-as-a-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wacom-behind-the-scenes-life-as-a-cartoonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacom Behind the Scenes: Life as a Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"When people think of Learjets, fast cars and chateaus on the Riviera (are there chateaus on the Riviera?), people often think of not oil barons, but cartoonists. It's a glamorous life, to be sure. Wacom wanted a behind-the-scenes look at life as a cartoonist, so we asked our friend and professional cartoonist\/man-about-town, Jason Chatfield, to show us what life is like when you're capturing life's ironies, one panel at a time.\n\nNow living in New York City, and originally from Perth, Australia (\u201cthe most isolated capital city on the planet,\u201d he jokes), Jason Chatfield<\/a> draws from many influences, like Mad Magazine<\/em> and venerable comic strips from home. In fact, his work has appeared in Mad<\/em>, The New Yorker Magazine<\/em>, and he\u2019s taken the reigns for drawing and producing Ginger Meggs<\/a>, Australia\u2019s most popular and longest-running comic strip, created in the early 1920s, making him Australia\u2019s most widely syndicated cartoonist.\n\nWhen he\u2019s not creating or sketching, on the road meeting other cartoonists at trade shows, Jason hops on the stage and performs stand-up comedy at various clubs across NYC.\n\nIn his spare time (hah), Jason is also the vice president of the National Cartoonist Society<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest cartooning organization, founded in the 1940s.\n\nWhat makes Jason tick, where does he find the time and energy, and how important is sketching and drawing for the creative process? For these three episodes of Wacom Artist Profiles, we visited him in NYC and asked him. No big secret: Jason is a talented, funny guy.\n

Episode one: Living as a cartoonist in New York <\/em><\/h2>\nIf living in New York City as a cartoonist sounds like a dream, it probably is or at least close to the dream. Jason says being in NYC is conducive to being creative. He gets his inspiration from walking around neighborhoods, the people, the architecture, and sketching in his notepad. \u201cNew York is full of incredible characters, on the subway or on the street, and I\u2019ll draw them or make notes,\u201d he says.\n\n