Cartoonist Needed — 3 Golf Comic Strips for Print Magazine (Vol. 01)

Project description Fresh Air is a new annual print magazine launching Holiday 2026, shipping with every order of Solevaire — a luxury golf shoe care brand. The editorial bar is set by Sports Illustrated, The Golfer’s Journal, and Cereal Magazine. I’m looking for a cartoonist to create three original comic strips for the magazine’s closing department. Each strip is three panels, full color, in the style of The Parfather or similar Sunday-comics golf cartooning (painted or digital color, traditional character work, dialogue in speech bubbles). Scope 3 original comic strips, 3 panels each Full color, print-ready Delivered as high-res PDF or PSD, 300 DPI, CMYK Approximate dimensions: 4" × 10" per strip, vertical orientation (open to discussion) The three cartoons All three feature well-known professional golfers in caricature (not photorealistic). Themes cover club-throwing frustration, a deadpan press conference, and a physicist-golfer’s battle with fescue. Full three-panel scripts — dialogue, staging, character notes — will be provided upon hire. Timeline milestones Concept sketches (rough pencil): 5 days after start One round of revisions: 2 days Final art delivered: within 2 weeks total Budget note (be transparent about this) $100 for three strips is intentionally a Vol. 01 pilot rate. If this issue lands well, I’m looking for a recurring illustrator for future volumes (2–3 new strips per year, ongoing multi-year partnership). This is a shot at a long relationship with a launching luxury brand, not a one-off. Byline credit in the printed magazine every year. To apply, please include 3 samples of comic or cartoon work (golf a plus, not required) One sentence about your process for caricaturing real people Confirmation you can hit a 2-week timeline One quick pencil sketch attempt of any character (a golfer of your choice) so I can see your line before we start Rights Full print and digital rights transfer with payment. Illustrator retains portfolio rights and byline credit in every issue the work appears in. Not an exclusive engagement — you can license similar work elsewhere. I have panel scripts for you on this project so it should be pretty straightforward. I would like to project done within 2 weeks of hire.