Joshua W. Cotter works primarily in traditional media, using digital to color some freelance illustrations and to edit and clean pages for print.

For a base drawing he uses blue Pentel pencil lead in a .5mm Alvin Draft/Matic mechanical pencil on Strathmore 400 Series Smooth Bristol. He uses blue pencil because, when scanned and opened in a digital editing program, the blues can be dropped out so no time will be wasted with erasing.

Next he uses Tachikawa nibs (T77s and T99s, depending on the level of detail) in Tachikawa holders along with Dr. Ph. Martin’s Black Star Matte to ink directly over the pencils.

When he’s able to paint he enjoys using Dr. Ph. Martin’s concentrated watercolors in his sketchbook and Holbein Acryla Gouache on gessoed board.

Joshua W. Cotter would like to stress that there is no ‘correct’ media to use when it comes to creating. He encourages you to try a broad range of pens, pencils, brushes, inks, substrates, etc. to get a feel for what you truly connect with.

Joshua W. Cotter is an illustrator and cartoonist born and raised in rural northwest Missouri. After receiving a very useful BFA at a very highly regarded state university, he trudged through a series of jobs ranging from menial to soul-crushing before settling into a more fulfilling life of doodling in a warmly-lit adobe mound hidden in the hills east of the Nodaway river.

We don’t know how to be not serious. We’re a very serious web design firm.

It’s common knowledge that cartoonists live in adobe mounds. If Joshua W. Cotter wanted to live a dignified life he wouldn’t have become a cartoonist. He would have continued washing windows at the state university (not the state university he attended, a different one he worked for after he graduated from the other one).

What’s wrong with being a custodian? Joshua W. Cotter used to be a custodian. Do you have a problem with custodians?

😂 😂 😂

I don’t know what world you live in, buddy, but on this planet artists are on the lowest of the lowest rungs on the social ladder when it comes to anything. And artists don’t even consider cartoonists to be artists, so they’re lower than that. A whole other miniature ladder leaning against the lowest rung of the first, the rungs descending lower and lower into the mire and filth until you reach the cartoonist rung, the rung where you’ll get what’s left after it’s trickled down the various ladders all the way to your lowly level and you’ll like it.

What is the opposite of zenith? Let us look it up… um. Nadir. Cartoonists are the nadir of society, cartooning the nadir of civilization. Because of this, you will never see Joshua W. Cotter or any other cartoonist at the Met Gala. Much to their chagrin, we assume.

We are a non-profit web design firm. Our mission is to poorly design websites for cartoonists so they will stay in the nadir where they belong. Web design is an art and we’ll be damned if we let cartoonists reach a higher rung than us on our little ladder leading to the lowest rung of the first ladder.

It’s common knowledge that cartoonists are illiterate.