In the comic, at the end, I mentioned that I wound up illustrating all of the “Cops ‘n Crooks” second year package fronts (blister card & vehicle boxes) despite Marketing and the Art Department choosing to have the first year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s probably a good thing that I was so young so I wouldn’t over think things. I had no real immediacy to return to Pittsburgh, no job to get to, neither did my mom. But there’s no way we would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My age at this time, 22 years old, is a large factor in this comic. Am I proud that I selfishly was upset that this collapsing woman may have disturbed and interrupted my interview? No, I’m not. But I admit,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve read my many comics about searching for a job, here in the 21st Century, on the computer and the internet, you know how frustrating that it can be. That’s why I believe the most incredible part of my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looking back on it now, I really couldn’t blame those interviews/portfolio presentations for ending up like they did. They were small studios, small businesses (I couldn’t set up any interviews with larger companies in the city) and they weren’t in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I could go over all the stuff that happened to me at Hallmark, because I didn’t leave, (both good and bad), but that could lead to a lengthy post. I’ll just add this. In 1997 I got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I left Hasbro in 1989 I still had a lot of friends working there. But, with every acquisition of another toy company, (Kenner, Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Tonka, etc…) there were numbers of redundant employees, so Hasbro would just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can understand this fellow, (who was probably just a kid in the early 80’s), having such great and fond memories about those toys whose packages and packaging artwork I had done, being so excited to have met and speaking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, I understand that someone who’s been with the company for a long time may find some of the training projects we went through today as dull and routine. But for those of us just getting their feet wet with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always known I was going to get some sort of pension from Hasbro. I worked there from 1983 thru 1989, back in the olden days when companies still offered and gave pensions. This letter though, broke down the whole[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…