Tiny Wheels Media, LLC

Someone asked me, “Where did you come up with the name ‘Tiny Wheels Media, LLC’?” Good question. Here’s the story.

A little over twenty years ago, I was at an Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Convention. Us wee college students could have real, professional cartoonist review our portfolios.  We gathered our work and went to the tables in that hotel ballroom.  I laid mine out in front of The Kansas City Star’s excellent cartoonist, Lee Judge.  Lee looked at my work and looked me in the eye and said something that has stuck with me since: “If you’re going to draw a cartoon, make it look funny.”

Kind of seems like common sense, I guess, looking at it in hindsight (making a cartoon look funny) — but I immediately changed how I did my work.  And one of the first things I did to make my work funnier, was to draw impossibly small wheels on cars.  Tiny wheels were born that day.

When I go speak I get asked lots of questions.  But the #1 question I get is “why do draw wheels on cars so tiny.” It’s kind of my trademark.

I’ve been throwing the name Tiny Wheels Media around in my head for a few days. Then someone on Facebook mentioned it in jest. It was a sign from above.  Tiny Wheels Media reflects my mission and reflects who I am.   It stands for my promise to you to add a touch of humor to everything I do.  To make it funny.