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    Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings
    Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings
    Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings
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    Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings

    By Tom Fishburne

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    “Tom is the David Ogilvy of cartooning.”
    --Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow

    From the birth of social media to digital advertising to personal branding, marketing has transformed in the past 15 years. Capturing these quintessential moments in marketing is Marketoonist, a popular cartoon series from veteran marketer Tom Fishburne. Your Ad Ignored Here collects nearly 200 of these hilarious and apt depictions of modern marketing life on the 15th anniversary of the series.

    Fishburne began to doodle his observations in 2002 when working in the trenches of marketing. Initially intended for co-workers, they are now read by hundreds of thousands of marketers every week. The cartoons’ popularity stem not only from their deft reflections on latest trends, but their witty summary of the shared experiences of marketing — handling a PR crisis, giving creative feedback to an agency, or avoiding idea killers in innovation.

    Your Ad Ignored Here gives voice to the challenges and opportunities faced by people working in business everywhere. Readers regularly inquire if Fishburne is spying on them at work. Whether or not you work in marketing, these cartoons will make you laugh ... and think about our rapidly evolving world of work.

    Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a student at Harvard Business School. Fishburne’s cartoons have grown by word of mouth to reach hundreds of thousands of marketers every week and have been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The New York Times. His cartoons have appeared on a billboard ad in Times Square, helped win a Guinness World Record, and turned up in a top-secret NSA presentation released by Edward Snowden.

    Fishburne draws (literally and figuratively) from 20 years in the marketing trenches in the US and Europe. He was Marketing VP at Method Products, Interim CMO at HotelTonight, and worked in brand management for Nestlé and General Mills. Fishburne developed web sites and digital campaigns for interactive agency iXL in the late 90s and started his marketing career selling advertising space for the first English-language magazine in Prague.

    In 2010, Fishburne expanded Marketoonist into a marketing agency focused on the unique medium of cartoons. Since 2010, Marketoonist has developed visual content marketing campaigns for businesses such as Google, IBM, Kronos, and LinkedIn.

    Fishburne is a frequent keynote speaker on marketing, innovation, and creativity, using cartoons, case studies, and his marketing career to tell the story visually.

    Fishburne lives and draws near San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.

    All of his cartoons and observations are posted at marketoonist.com.

    Advance praise for Your Ad Ignored Here:
    "Tom is the David Ogilvy of cartooning."
    --Seth Godin, Author, Purple Cow

    "If marketing kept a diary, this would be it."
    --Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs

    "Laugh and learn at the same time. BTW, if you don’t laugh, you’re clueless, and the cartoon is about you."
    --Guy Kawasaki, Chief evangelist of Canva, Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador

    "Tom Fishburne has a knack for marketing humor (and truth) like no other."
    --Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Marketing

    "Any great piece of comedy is funny because its true. Well, no one has gathered marketing truths through painfully awkward insights and hilarious delivery the way Tom has."
    --Ron Tite, Author, Everyone’s An Artist (Or At Least They Should Be)

    "If every cartoonist were really as wise and observant as they claim to be, then they would be Tom Fishburne."
    --Drew Dernavich, New Yorker cartoonist

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Fishburne
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9780999070307
    Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings
    Author

    Tom Fishburne

    Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a student at Harvard Business School. Tom’s cartoons have grown by word of mouth to reach hundreds of thousands of marketers every week and have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the New York Times. His cartoons have appeared on a billboard ad in Times Square, helped win a Guinness World Record, and turned up in a top-secret NSA presentation released by Edward Snowden. Tom draws (literally and figuratively) from 20 years in the marketing trenches in the US and Europe. He was Marketing VP at Method Products, Interim CMO at HotelTonight, and worked in brand management for Nestle and General Mills. Tom developed web sites and digital campaigns for interactive agency iXL in the late 90s and worked on the first English-language magazine in Prague. In 2010, Tom expanded Marketoonist into a marketing agency focused on the unique medium of cartoons. Since 2010, Marketoonist has developed visual content marketing with a sense of humor for businesses such as Google, IBM, Kronos, and LinkedIn. Tom is a frequent keynote speaker on marketing, innovation and creativity, using cartoons, case studies, and his marketing career to tell the story visually. Tom lives and draws near San Francisco with his wife and two daughters. All of his cartoons and observations are posted at marketoonist.com.

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      Your Ad Ignored Here - Tom Fishburne

      title page

      Text and illustrations copyright © 2002 - 2017

      by Tom Fishburne and Marketoonist, LLC.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the author.

      All cartoons are available to license at marketoonist.com (easy-peasy, I promise). Thank you for helping support the copyrights of these cartoons by licensing them before using them.

      If you like the cartoons, you can also sign up for a cheeky email newsletter with a new cartoon each week at marketoonist.com or follow @tomfishburne.

      ISBN 978-0-9990703-1-4 (paperback)

      ISBN 978-0-9990703-0-7 (ebook)

      Tom Fishburne

      Marketoonist, LLC

      111 Bolinas Ave

      San Anselmo, California 94960

      marketoonist.com

      To Tallie

      From Čechova to Bolinas

      FOREWORD

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      Hello, friend! I’m excited that you have picked up this book and you’re about to read it. Because I know you’re going to love it!

      In Your Ad Ignored Here, Tom gently lampoons and lightly pokes fun at marketing and marketers over the past 15 years. If you’ve been in marketing for any of that time (or longer, like I have!) you’ll recognize yourself (and people you know) in these cartoons.

      On the one hand, this is a simple collection of drawings depicting the pedestrian, workaday lives of marketers. But it is also so much more powerful than that, because the situations and characters Tom portrays are universal. You’ll nod your head along as you read these cartoons, in other words.

      But even more than that, this book reads like a time capsule of marketing since 2002, when Tom first started drawing the first of these some 200 business

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