Jeremy Wortsman

Around 18 months ago I launched PencilBooth - A simple idea based on a random domain name I bought ten years ago. As a huge fan of TinyLetter, the no-nonsense text-based newsletter service, I wanted to make the equivalent but for visual artists rather than writers. Of course, what started as a simple idea gained a small amount of user interest at which point I got hooked... Six months into our...

After seventeen years of running our own illustration and animation agency, it became harder and harder to get our clients and fans to actually see the great work we were doing. We had nearly 50k followers on Instagram but only a small fraction were seeing the work, it was really disheartening. We had long wanted to restart or dormant newsletter, but almost every platform was either too...

This is basically a dumb joke that we need to fully credit one John A. McLennan for coining in our earliest days in a shared office space. Nearly eleven years later, it still gives us a chuckle, so we made it into a sticker designed by the one and only Diego Patino (with obvious apologies to Shepard Fairey). If you’re someone who also finds this funny, you’re probably also a product or project...

Hello hunters! Jeremy here, founder of The Jacky Winter Group and Corvid. Long time listener, first time caller. Over the years, we at The Jacky Winter Group have received countless requests from artists outside our roster for help with their careers and projects. As one of the only groups with the experience and know-how to truly help, we've long considered how we could bring our knowledge and...