Carol Tyler Tutorial

Underground comics legend Carol Tyler gives a tutorial at the cartooning workshop Matt Wright and I conducted at the Westwood Branch of the Public Libraries of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Spring 2009.

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Interview from 2009 Artist's and Graphic Designer's Market (F&W Publications)

This interview, conducted by Poppy Evans, talks about how I moved from gallery painting to graphic novels.

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SPLENDID-LITE TRAILER

Here's a teaser for my forthcoming book, SPLENDID-LITE. For more images be sure to visit my website at kenhensonart.com

Thank you, Jim Davis.

Like many other artists I know, the encouragement I received from my friends, parents, and teachers helped foster my enthusiasm. It's this kind of encouragement that led me to become a teacher. One profound inspiration was Jim Davis. When I was in the third grade I wrote Mr. Davis, and he was kind enough to write me back. I had never written a celebrity before and did not know whether he would write me back or not. I remember feeling absolutely graced when I received the following hand typed letter with Mr. Davis' signature. Keep in mind this was 1983 and Garfield had only been around for five years.

Thank you, Mr. Davis. Thank you for your kind inspiration to a budding artist. :)

Enclosed was a photocopy of an article and a promotional. The following are pics of the letter and the promotional, which I think is a nifty little piece of ephemera.