Jack Teagle Lecture Notes

• Freelancer for 3 years
• Did posters, t shirts, comics
• He exhibited his work in many galleries around the world
• Works a lot with No Brow 
• Self publishes comics and zines and collaborated with other artists
• As a child his biggest influences were watching cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman   ( the Tim Burton versions)
• Other influences were vintage comics because of the style, colour scheme and boldness
• He was inspired by artists such as Gary Baseman and Gary Panter, they have varied work, did there own stuff and are an iconic figure to Jack
• He was also inspired by Robert Krunt's line drawings, so did alot of practise with pen work
• He started with Art and Language studies, combining imagery and text
• Influenced by action figures, toys and wanted to make his own
• Exhibited in London, DNAD
• After graduation he found it difficult to find jobs
• After 3 months of being unemployed, the company No Brow contacted him for a job
• He was then pushed to do proper, professional looking comic books published by No Brow
• Clients started to flow in, and he designed comics for America, articles and hand drawn types
• Did an Exhibition in Portugal
• Advice from Jack was that you never know what, where people want so try and do everything possible to get known
• Digital work helped him get more work down faster
• Putting everything on-line and blogging everything he does will help expose his work in the highest possible way.