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Cartoonist and Illustrator Rob Harrell on Doing Freelance Work
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Cartoonist, author, and illustrator Rob Harrell has done a lot of different types of creative work in his career including comic strips, graphic novels, middle-grade novels, and commissioned figurative artwork. He's illustrated all of his own work including the Big Top comic strip, and the Monster on the Hill, Life of Zarf, and Batpig graphic novels. While Harrell hasn't done much freelance illustration work in recent years due to his own busy project schedule, he is certainly open to it if time...
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