Applying Cartoons
To Practical
Communication.
Communication.
•Business •Community
•Education •Church
•Language Arts •Entertainment
•Education •Church
•Language Arts •Entertainment
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Project rate*________$50/hr
Cartoon Sessions
Elementary School__$50/hr
Middle School______$60/hr
High School________$75/hr
Workshop________$500/day**
Caricature Event_____$50/hr
Caricature
Pencil_____________$100
Ink_______________$150
Comic Book Style____$500
Cartoon Sessions
Elementary School__$50/hr
Middle School______$60/hr
High School________$75/hr
Workshop________$500/day**
Caricature Event_____$50/hr
Caricature
Pencil_____________$100
Ink_______________$150
Comic Book Style____$500
*Email us for a quote on your project. We"ll work to make your illustration or communication need affordable.
**Plus travel and materials expenses.
See our Goo U and Goo Pro pages for sessions & workshops.
**Plus travel and materials expenses.
See our Goo U and Goo Pro pages for sessions & workshops.
News, Updates and Events:
Goo U
Summer Science and Art Camp dates for 2010 are set!
Take a look at our camps on the Googenius University page.
We'll be in:
Holland at Hope College Summer Science Camps the week of June 21-25
Grandville at Calvin Christian High School the week of June 28 - July 2.
Holland Christian Senior Party Caricatures
We had a great time from 11PM-2:30AM caricaturing the Holland Christian seniors at Craig's Cruisers in Wyoming. A great event with great young people having fun.
Meet the new Googe
Googe is the face of Applied Cartooning. He's a step up from
the old iteration you'll see still lurking on some of these pages
(a ball with a propeller beanie and arms). A true superhero!
Walkin' in Memphis
Googenius headed to Tennessee in February to deliver
seminars on developing our visual system & techniques
for better learning. We did two student application sessions
and one professional development session.
Googenius Illustrates Small Talk Curriculum Books
We recently finished 59 illustrations in five books that will help
young children start to learn Spanish, French and Chinese.
Click here to find out more about Small Talk for Kids.
Character Quality Cartoons
Every month we produce a new positive character trait cartoon.
We have displayed these at the local Chamber of Commerce
monthly breakfasts and at the West Michigan Character Council
monthly breakfasts. There are 49 qualities we'll illustrate in all.
Googenius Illustrates Innovate the Pixar Way
by Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson (Click Here to Review and Buy)
Four section headings plus a caricature and Googenius is in an
excellent business book by the authors of the best selling Disney
Way. Published by McGraw-Hill, Innovate came out in December.
Goo U Summer Science and Art Camp dates for 2010 are set!
Take a look at our camps on the Googenius University page.
We'll be in:
Holland at Hope College Summer Science Camps the week of June 21-25
Grandville at Calvin Christian High School the week of June 28 - July 2.
Holland Christian Senior Party CaricaturesWe had a great time from 11PM-2:30AM caricaturing the Holland Christian seniors at Craig's Cruisers in Wyoming. A great event with great young people having fun.
Meet the new GoogeGooge is the face of Applied Cartooning. He's a step up from
the old iteration you'll see still lurking on some of these pages
(a ball with a propeller beanie and arms). A true superhero!
Walkin' in MemphisGoogenius headed to Tennessee in February to deliver
seminars on developing our visual system & techniques
for better learning. We did two student application sessions
and one professional development session.
Googenius Illustrates Small Talk Curriculum BooksWe recently finished 59 illustrations in five books that will help
young children start to learn Spanish, French and Chinese.
Click here to find out more about Small Talk for Kids.
Character Quality CartoonsEvery month we produce a new positive character trait cartoon.
We have displayed these at the local Chamber of Commerce
monthly breakfasts and at the West Michigan Character Council
monthly breakfasts. There are 49 qualities we'll illustrate in all.
Googenius Illustrates Innovate the Pixar Way by Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson (Click Here to Review and Buy)
Four section headings plus a caricature and Googenius is in an
excellent business book by the authors of the best selling Disney
Way. Published by McGraw-Hill, Innovate came out in December.
About Googenius
What exactly is "Applied Cartooning"?
In
a nutshell, Applied Cartooning is taking the best qualities of cartoon
illustration and technique, and applying them to the communication and
understanding of ideas...in any field you choose! It's using cartoons
for a higher purpose than they're often relegated to...without
forgetting their story-telling and entertainment value.We believe cartoons are pure genius! Since the dawn of man cartoon illustrations have been used to transmit powerful and important ideas...our goal is to harness and refine that power for the information age.
While there are lots of ways to communicate, and some forms are better than others for different situations, we believe cartoons are a form of communication whose time has come. They "deliver the goods" in so many ways and they are adaptable to nearly every discipline, language and way of thinking.
Our Objectives:
1. Promote graphic literature (cartoon story) as a legitimate form of communication.
2. Develop graphic literature into an improved form of communication and idea exchange.
3. Apply cartoons and cartoon techniques to all forms of practical communication.
4. Promote right-brain (innovation and synthesis) aptitudes by teaching cartooning techniques.
5. Present the richness and historical impact of graphic literature internationally.
6. Introduce cultures to each other by making their graphic literature available and accessible.
7. Appreciate and expand the humor, beauty and artistry of graphic story worldwide.
8. Develop new ways to market and apply cartoons to consumer interests.
Who works at Googenius?
Well, for the moment Googenius is admittedly mostly just Wade Gugino...but he works on various aspects of Goo U with Tod Gugino (bio below), a handful of helpful mentors and a supporting cast of
part-time contract workers. Together we have a large network of artistic and
educational contacts and will be adding positions as the world embraces
Applied Cartooning and the genius of cartoon literature.
Wade Gugino: Owner
Wade graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan in 1992 with a
Business and Art composite degree. He has lived for fifteen years in
Europe playing professional basketball and studying the international
culture of cartoons and graphic novels. He has contributed numerous
sports and editorial cartoons to newspapers and magazines in France.
Now retired from professional sports, he lives just north of Holland on
the shores of Lake Michigan with his wife and four children. He is
dedicated to making his childhood dream of cartooning and developing
the art of cartoon expression a reality. (Pictured here teaching
cartoons to first graders in West Ottawa).
Tod Gugino: Googenius University Partner
Also a graduate of Hope College (Biology, 1985), Tod has served as
Hope's Chemistry Lab Director for over twenty years and is active in
many educational programs. On top of his regular duties, Tod runs the
Hope College Summer Science Camps, teaches lab courses at Hope, and
provides science instruction for home-school programs as well as
serving on the committee to update the science curriculum in Holland
Public Schools. He lives on the south side of Holland with his wife of
twenty years and four children. Tod loves science and education and
believes that by starting young, kids will be inspired to excel in
these areas.