Richard and his team at Cartoon Studio pulled out all the stops and within 24 hours we had the first drafts of what proved to be an invaluable marketing tool to get our bid noticed. The brief was very vague and somewhat rushed but Richard knew exactly what would attract the event organiser's attention and what would capture their imagination.
It worked! Need less to say that this December we will all be hurtling down a very steep hill in a home-made soapbox car ! I cannot recommend the Cartoon Studio enough for the value they added to our pitch and the competitive edge his designs gave us- maybe I should have asked him if he can provide accident insurance!
Email from Marie Brown Regional Fundraising Manager NCH, the children's charity.
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Building a brand through cartoons strips in the trade press...
How I created the characters and cartoon strip...

HOW THE USE OF CARTOONS CAN HELP YOU, YOUR COMPANY OR YOUR CLIENTS.....
1. Cartoons to illustrate press releases - attracting readers/editors attention.
2. Corporate Christmas cards.
3. Cartoon strips - cartoon characters build a following, then readers demand
them!
4. Competitions/puzzles. Competition
5. Reminders - cartoon reminders remind, a picture tells a thousand words!
6. Before and After cartoons. (How bad life is before you had the product -
how good it is with it.)
7. Colouring competitions for youngsters.
8. Illustrating editorial competition awards
9. Thank you cards. (Thank you for your business cards to send to your
clients!?)
10. Caricatures - for presentations, giving as birthday/leaving presents.
11. Marketing mailshots - let people know you're still around and thinking of
them!
12. Motivating cartoons - keep everybody motivated with humorous pictures.
13. Cartoon character development.
14. T-shirts for promotions.
15. Baseball caps.
16. Calendars - your own would keep your name in front of people all year!
17. Slide/Powerpoint presentations - keep your audience awake with humour!
18. Congratulations cards - on a job well done, your staff would appreciate
one!
19. Cartoon logos.
20. Cartoon characters for the web.
21. Maps - humorous maps for your address, your site and for the public.
22. Branded cartoons - get your clients logo in the cartoon.
23. Spot-the-Difference cartoons.
24. Lightening up in-house magazines.
25. Cartoon advertisements.
26. Recipes illustrated with cartoons.
27. Friendly faxes.
28. Book illustration.
29. Leaflet design.
30. Packaging design.
31. Keyrings with corporate cartoons.
32. Continuity cartoon mailers.
33. Invitations.
34. Moving address cartoons
35. Safety cartoons
36.Total Customer Satisfaction - pointing out that working together benefits
everyone.
37. Graphics for exhibition stands.
38. Product launches. Cartoon of big gun blasting out new products to the
market. Caricatures of clients included. Used as a presentation memento.

Past and present clients:

Clerical Medical
Somerfields
Abbey National
Hewlett Packard
Velcro
Alpen
Andrews Salts
Sleep Council
ATS Euromaster
Spear & Jackson
Beefeater
The Disney Channel
Wash 'n' Go
Unipart
Kent Meters
Co-op
Danish Bacon
Dulux
East Midlands Electricity
Midland Bank