{"id":106307,"date":"2019-05-23T22:17:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/?p=106307"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:18:58","slug":"rejection-dejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/rejection-dejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection dejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-106317\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mika-rejection-photo-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo \u00a9 \u00a0Mika Schick<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Surreal McCoy writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">When you give a talk on rejection the main worry of course is that no one will turn up. Thankfully quite a few people did attend a recent evening entitled The Art Of Rejection hosted by three members of the PCO at Westminster Reference Library in central London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-106308\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1_THE_SURREAL_McCOY_Map_Cartoonist_Studio-500x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Surreal McCoy&#8217;s studio with walls papered with rejection slips. \u00a9The Surreal McCoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Banx, The Surreal McCoy and Glenn Marshall took to the library floor, sharing their rejected work and the ways in which they deal with this inevitable part of a creative person\u2019s life. [Spoiler alert: they just keep drawing more cartoons.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-106310\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/9-headless-chicken-line-up-copy-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Jeremy Banx take on the police line-up butchered chicken trope. \u00a9Banx<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">One audience member later quipped \u201cit&#8217;s the start of a new way of working. Now I send all my drawings directly to the bin, which reduces anxiety and frees up valuable time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-106312\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/please-do-not-reject-envelope-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Marshall&#8217;s failed desperate attempt to avoid rejection.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo \u00a9 \u00a0Mika Schick The Surreal McCoy writes: When you give a talk on rejection the main worry of course is that no one will turn up. 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