On this page you will find a collection links on various subjects. They include Kids and Parents Corner, Artist Legal Information, Trade Publications, and Industry-related Associations for Cartoonists and Illustrators. You can find information about Cartoon & Comic Book Conferences on another page within our website.
We hope you find these links helpful. If you know of any other links that you would like to see added to this page, please Email Us and give us your suggestions.
Kids and Parents
Educational Games for Children
Welcome parents! Play to learn! Your kids can now play FunBrain games offline! Download the newest edition of "Math Baseball" - or watch your kids soar with "Planet Zug," the popular grade-by-grade vocabulary builder. All offline - no advertising and no distractions! Educational games for your child!
National Geographic for Kids
Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More - Features different people, animals, and places each month with facts, games, activities, and related links.
Children's Music
Enjoy this video from a talented children's musician and song writer, Maestro Dusty.
Music CDs available.
Personalized Name Songs - A free personalized name song customized for the special child in your life. Children will wiggle, jiggle, and giggle along as they hear their name over and over again throughout their song.
National Cartoonists Society
The National Cartoonists Society is the world's largest and most prestigious organization of professional cartoonists. As defined in the NCS by-laws, a professional is one who earns the majority of one's living by drawing cartoons. The by-laws define a cartoonist as "a graphic story teller, whose drawings interpret rather than copy nature in order to heighten the effect of his or her message."
Southern California Cartoonists Society
The Southern California Cartoonists Society is the San Diego Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society and was started in 1986 as a social group and later developed into a support group that provides up-and-coming cartoonists with opportunities to interact for social, charitable and professional purposes.
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
The purpose of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will be the collection, preservation, study, education, and display of comic and cartoon art.
The New York City Comic Book Museum
The Mission of the New York City Comic Book Museum is to preserve the historical and artistic legacy of comic book culture, place it in the context of a changing society, show its usefulness in educating and entertaining, and instill in audiences the value and joy of this rich American heritage.
The American Association of Editorial Cartoonists
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is made up of full-time editorial cartoonists, student cartoonists, and others with a professional interest in cartooning.
The Political Cartoon Society
Their aim is to promote the ‘political‘ cartoon by way of amusing, informing and educating.
Animation Magazine
Online and print magazine dedicated to the business, technology and art of animation.
The Artist's Magazine
The world's leading magazine for working artists of all levels. Designed to teach readers how to paint and draw better, the magazine's format is instructional, based on step-by-step presentations that show as well as tell. It stands alone as the source of business and technical information for artists, including articles on such topics as selling and copyrighting artwork.
Adobe Magazine
Dedicated to helping users of Adobe® products get their work done better and faster, and to entertain, educate, and inspire them along the way. Each issue of Adobe Magazine contains how-to articles that take you step-by-step through projects, technologies, and products; real-world Q&A with answers from Adobe's technical-support experts; feature stories that range from profiles and essays, to interviews and overviews; plus much more.
The Society of Illustrators
Their mission is to promote and stimulate interest in the art of illustration, past, present and future, and to give impetus generally toward high ideals in the art by means of exhibitions, lectures, educational programs, social intercourse, and in such other ways as may seem advisable.
Association of Illustrators
Established in 1973 to promote illustration, advance and protect illustrators rights and encourage professional standards. It has successfully increased the standing of illustration as a profession and improved commercial and ethical conditions of employment.
Illustrators' Partnership
Their purpose is to: Assert the value of an artist's portfolio as an asset of the creator, not a source of free inventory for others. Educate artists on how to protect and manage their intellectual property rights. Conduct research and prepare a comprehensive report on how illustrators can take advantage of the emerging opportunities in electronic licensing and publication of their works. Engage in research on the development of authentic, secondary markets for artists' work. Define and uphold professional standards among illustrators to protect them from unethical business practices. Raise the visibility of illustration through a public relations campaign. Link isolated members through a newsletter and web site.
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
The largest licenser of text reproduction rights in the world, was formed in 1978 to facilitate compliance with U.S. copyright law. CCC provides licensing systems for the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted materials in print and electronic formats throughout the world.
The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations
An independent organization established to foster the fundamental international copyright principles embodied in the Berne and Universal Copyright Conventions. Its purpose is to facilitate, on an international basis, the collective management of reproduction and other rights relevant to copyrighted works through the co-operation of national Reproduction Rights Organizations (RROs).
The Society of Photographers and Artists Representatives
Encourages high standards of conduct from professional representatives across the country. It fosters an environment of shared information that includes the compilation, collection and distribution of equitable strategies and ethical guidelines concerning the effective marketing and sale of artists’ work.
NameProtect®
Digital brand protection company that provides a comprehensive suite of trademark research, trademark watching and advanced online brand monitoring services that assist trademark professionals in meeting the evolving intellectual property challenges of the digital era.
DigiMarc®
Leading supplier of digital watermarking and secure identification solutions used in a wide range of security, identification and digital media content applications.
