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B2B Exposed

B2B Exposed


Matt Zalen is the creator of "Back 2 Basics," a self-syndicated cartoon about an eccentric family living in a world which is even crazier than ours. Since first being published in November 2007, the strip has been picked up by 16 papers, making it one of the most popular self-syndicated features of the year.


 

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May
08

Kicking things off


mzalen, B2B Exposed
Although this blog was first advertised in the same Spotlight issue which launched my comic strip and which printed a story about me, I feel an introduction is nonetheless necessary.

Hi! My name is Matt. I’m a cartoonist, and I grew up in Bethlehem.

Wow, written that way it looks like some sort of affliction. So just to be clear, I actually like my name, I loved growing up in Bethlehem, and as for cartooning, well there’s a lot to say.

Which is why we have this blog.

You know a bit about what drove me to become a cartoonist and my experience since, but there’s much more to the story...

Back 2 Basics, Week 1




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TAGS: comic, cartoon, Back 2 Basics, funny

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May
21

Evolution DOES exist


mzalen, B2B Exposed
Evolution DOES exist. In the cartooning world, at least.

Back in the good ol’ days, cartoonists were hired by newspapers to draw comic strips specifically for that paper. The newspaper would give the cartoonist lots of room to play with – say, an entire page – and the artist would be granted almost complete creative liberties (subject to the censorship of the editor, of course).

Now if any of you are wondering when exactly “the good ol’ days” refers to, it’s the beginning of the twentieth century. Yes, I know that things weren’t exactly sanitary back then, and that crime and corruption was way up, and that the television didn’t exist, and by consequence there wasn’t much to do, but those were still good days...

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TAGS: comic, funny, Back 2 Basics, cartoons

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