Oregon Art Beat
- Cartoonist Jan Eliot
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- Jan Eliot studied art at Southern Illinois University and eventually settled in Eugene. Jan also earned a degree in Women Studies and English at the University of Oregon, having temporarily given up on studying art. After graduating, she landed a series of jobs that ranged from bookmobile librarian to car sales. A position in the production department of a newspaper eventually led to a career in graphic design and back in art, and finally she ended up spending seven happy years in his design/advertising agency. Though it all, Jan continued to cartoon -- working with three greeting card companies, illustrating computer manuals and textbooks, contributing to a few magazines, persuading her local paper to run her comic strip "Sister City" (an early version of "Stone Soup") on a weekly basis. If you're curious about the strip's name, it comes from an old fairy tale that illustrates how a community turned its limited resources into a grand feast and celebration -- creating something from nothing. This is what parents, especially single parents, often must do.
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- StoneSoupCartoons.com — Stone Soup is a syndicated cartoon strip that's distributed internationally by Universal Press Syndicate to over 140 newspapers in 6 countries, and read by over 8 million readers every day. You can read Stone Soup online every day! The Stones are an extended, blended family living in households where only the agile survive. Join Val and Joan — sisters and working moms — and their three energetic kids, their liberal live-in mother, Wally and his teen-age nephew Andy, and the Zen motorcycle cop — as they navigate life and all its chaos.
- Thursday January 10, 2008
