200

I admit I lost count. Sometime in the past week I posted cartoon 200 to Happy Now?, my cartoon blog. Not yet able to retire on my profits I did notice someone bought a tee shirt from my store. I think I made $0.37. So now I move into a new phase. Alas, not better art or funnier gags. I'm researching publicity and marketing. Simply, I will send out some letters to let "the media" know I exist.

I read somewhere that it takes 1,000 fans to be a success as an artist. That number seems low to me, but I guess that also depends on what one would describe as a fan. 

Yesterday, at the jewel box, I was telling staff about a book I like. Everyone I talked to caught the bug and wanted to get a copy. I'm a fan; an evangelist. And I am in a position where my influence can result in selling a few more copies of the book. Of course, someone in the media could have vaster influence (can you say, Oprah?). 

By the way, the book is Read Chinese Today, a Walk Through San Francisco's Chinatown: Understanding Chinese Characters by Their Ancestral Forms With Photographs And Map by Ping-gam Go, an interesting person in his own right.