I see a lot of the comments harping on how much she makes or questioning her choice to be a cartoonist but when you think about it, she's 22, self-employed AND doing something she loves. Roughly 30k a year at that age isn't horrible AND the added bonus of actually getting to be happy/fulfilled. Of course she's not pulling in what some other degrees might net you right out of the gate but her career is just starting, I'd say she's doing pretty well for herself and can't wait to see where she goes from here. Wish I had half of that work ethic... **I've been following for a while now, cool to put a face to the name.

If anyone is interested in her work, she did a short comic about grief called "If Only Once, If Only For A Little While" that's just breathtaking

making 30k a year while still finishing up college is pretty impressive imo

When you're pursuing illustration or cartooning as your profession it's incredibly hard just to get your foot in the door - and having worked in the field for the past thirty years I can say that with some authority. Having been a teacher at MCAD, where Rosemary and Maddi both attended, I have found their work ethic and dedication to the craft inspiring. Looking forward to seeing more of their work, and wishing them all the best in their future endeavors!

Normal people: "OMG this is horrible she makes no money!" Other Cartoonists, well aware of the struggle: "Wow... she did it. So there IS hope of making money with my comics after alll..."

Short answer: not enough. Like any creative job it's a lo of hours and not enough money. Sad how the jobs that are most important to the human body and soul earn so much less money than the ones that make people miserable.

My husband was working on a comic for a major publisher (Dark Horse, DC, Marvel big) - he was doing pencils, inks, colouring, lettering, and design. They were going to give him $500 for the entire book. DO NOT ACCEPT THESE JOBS. Call people out. That is unacceptable.

Happy to see Vice talk about cartoonists. Please talk about more of them.

I was a freelance cartoonist in college and made $5 per comic strip I submitted to the paper.

Congrats to her, $60k/year is a great wage for an artist. Hopefully many other artists are able to find that level of success, even if it takes them longer than her surprisingly fast rise.

A grand a month? I have to make a grand a week just to get through living in LA county

Animators are just as important to! Without us you wouldn't have your big movies and Saturday morning cartoons! All artists work hard and are happy with what they do, and it'd be nice if people didn't see it as a weird thing that some of us chose our career path to be in that one. It's perfectly acceptable and a good one

I'm already 21, and still in college for graphic design and the world seems so daunting. This video scares me that my education was a waste more than it gives me hope tbh. Oh well, she seems so sweet and good for her for striving and achieving her goals to where she is now. Also her art looks beyond lovely too

I hope the best for her she's really talented and I wish her a long and prosperous career in cartooning and illustration.

Amy Winehouse is alive and drawing cartoons in Minesota

This is an amazing piece, thank you so much for making this.

The smartest thing to do is work for your self as a cartoonist, the publisher business is in its last year's thanks to the Internet.

I love how personal and in-depth this is. Good job.

I actually wanna be a cartoonist

Would love to see some more/longer videos about artists from Vice. This was incredibly informative.

I mean you should have done a documentary on manga artist. They are some of the hardest working people out there. The guy who made dragonball got like 1 hour of sleep each day in the process of making it.

She's very beautiful

Who isn’t a cartoonist look for a 20 year old hipster they are an artist in their mind

Great spotlight Vice. You guys definitely need to do more of these. Rosemary, great art work and keep going!

More of this please. It's so awesome learning about different creative industries.

Funny that she's doing a book with Mariko Tamaki when her style so closely resembles Jillian Tamaki!

the weird about this video was earlier in the day my art teacher asking what was my next move from graduating after high school .... I told him I wanted to be a cartoonist because I make comics and we had a convo about what i should do and stuff ... its like life was trying to bring this topic back up again ...

Guys love this want more episodes :)

oh my gosh I love Rosemary's work!!! I've been following her stuff for a while now and no one is harder working/deserves success

Kind of interesting seeing the description: "Believe it or not, there are actually some people who make a living drawing comic books and graphic novels." Because I'm like.... um of COURSE??? But then I realized that this isn't an art channel (I've strayed from the artist side of KZfaq lmao) But seriously, there are actually a lot of people who make a living as a cartoonist/graphic novelist/mangaka. It's not that huge of a deal. Of course it is definitely a much, much, MUCH smaller niche than other jobs. I'm glad a channel like this gave a little spotlight to this field to show people the struggles of making a living from it. Btw, I'm not making a living from this line of work, in case what I wrote came off like I am. It's my goal though!😅

Seems like an anti cartoonist ad.

Drawing comic strips is an old industry yet very vew people do it as their career choice today. These guys are basically saving the art.

I wish I can draw because I've been plotting storylines for my characters for years now.

This was a great story! Really loved the shot comps and pacing as well. What cameras and lenses were used to create this piece?

she'd be making more money if she went under an alias and started drawing rule34 lol

Love Vice's comic content

LOVED it!! Packing my bags and coming to Minneapolis right away, do you guys have room for one more cartoonist? haha

Really interesting. She comes across really well and likeable. Clearly someone with a passion for her craft/work and that's great to see.

Really honest and to the point. Thanks for the video

This is awesome to see and hear how it is to be a cartoonist! Tough and great work being done by this girl. Inspirational :)

Its so nice to see someone pursuing and succeeding in something they love. Good for her.

1000 Dollars in a smaller decent city sounds nice. I think thats really enough to live if you are reasonable careful.

Cartoon and drawing is my hobby. Software development is my job.

I’m currently finishing my bachelors degree in photography and digital arts. I’m also going to pursue my masters degree in mental health counseling and psychiatry this is something else I am passionate about. A lot of the older girls in my school meaning us millennials realize that are fields are dying. Even though are school wants to pretend that it isn’t. This is why I’m still getting my bachelors degree in case photography comes back around in need but I’m not holding my breath. I’ve realized I’m so grateful that I have a back up plan in something else I also love. Because a lot of the generation Z of my school is in a fantasy of I only need one job and in the delusion that creative jobs aren’t dying out. While Us millennials are making plan A,BC and D.

“A grand a month...” Damn, that doesn’t even cover the student loans. 😢

Does anyone know the song around 3:20? It sounds so dope. I asked on the recent piece about voguing in NZ which used the same track in the intro, but that video got removed. p.s. She fine.

I finished a bachelor in Accounting and Finance. After school i said i dont know what to do but i wanted a family and i needed to support them. Yet i was drawing all day but mostly as a hobby, Now i m working 2 Jobs plus i m attending an art school. because its all about doing what you love. To all of you out there its gonna be hard you will get tired and disappointed but if you are doing what you love then you know and you will find a way to survive!

I would still be making them because I can't not. Wow true artist she is .

HI! I live in Minneapolis and pursuing an art degree. It is nice seeing an artist in my city making it in the industry.

Hey, I'm going into the Comic Arts major at MCAD this coming fall!!!!

I’ve been following Rosemary for years and I didn’t even know she had a Vice thing about her!!!! So proud!

You are awesome and such an inspiration!

Part II oh chapter 1 :) “Bruno, Bruno!” the woman shouted desperately, but nothing could be heard from the sphere. Curious, but also trying to remember as many details as possible for a future article, Viaceslav came near and took the woman by the shoulders, trying to pull her back. The woman struggled weakly for a moment, turning her head toward him, and looking at him with tears in her eyes. “My husband will kill me for having lost his dog. He told me not to take him, for I could not handle him, but I just wanted to take him out for a walk.” She leaned her head on Viaceslav’s shoulder and cried even harder, while Piotr, who was behind her, took some close-ups of the cut end of the leash: the slice was as fine and clean as if it had been made by a scalpel. Viaceslav turned his head and said to Piotr: “Get close to the sphere and take some pictures of the place where the dog disappeared. Maybe there is a trace….” Piotr shook his head. “If the lady’s husband comes up, the dog will be our least problem.” “What do you mean?” Viaceslav asked, confused. His friend explained: “The lady’s husband is Josef Sokolovski, a main pivot in the Polish rugby team. And he is famous for being extremely jealous.” Recalling several violent incidents in which the rugby player had been involved, and which he had written about in their magazine, Viaceslav tried to get the woman away from him, but at that very moment the crowd parted like breaking ice. The ice breaker was Josef Sokolovski himself, who regarded the embracing pair with a cold eye, thinking he would deal with it later. His priority was the dog, of which only a severed leash remained. “Where is Bruno?” he asked in a deep, baritone voice. When his wife pointed to the sphere, the man came near the black wall and shouted as loud as he could: “Brunooooo!” The windows of the buildings around them rattled and a few car alarms started, but there was no sound from the dog. He looked at his wife again, his face black as coal, and stormed toward the sphere,, undoubtedly determined to destroy it. “Sir,” Viaceslav spoke hesitantly, “please be careful. If you get too close, it could be dangerous.” The main pivot Josef Sokolovski grinned sardonically and snapped: “You’ll see what a dangerous situation is as soon as I get my dog back.” He came closer to the sphere and shouted the dog’s name once again. He reached toward the black matte sphere, hesitated for a brief moment, and then plunged his hand into the pitch-blackness. Nothing happened for a couple of moments, but then his hand got pulled in. The Polish national rugby team’s pivot turned a desperate look toward the people behind him, maybe the first such look in his life. He tried to speak, but he was quickly pulled inside the sphere before getting the chance to say anything. “Josef,” his wife screamed frantically, and before Viaceslav could stop her, she pulled herself from his arms and ran toward the sphere. She disappeared inside it before anyone could say or do anything. “Get back!” the journalist shouted hoarsely, and after regaining his voice, he urged: “Take all the children and stand back! This sphere is dangerous!” No one needed further instructions, because before their very eyes, a dog, a mountain of a man, and his wife had disappeared into its darkness without leaving the slightest trace. The journalist took out his phone and dialed 911, his hands shaking with emotion. “Hello,” he said. “My name is Viaceslav Barela. I work as a journalist for Fakt and I want to report that there is a bomb in the Krasinsky Square, right near the Karpackie tap house.” He listened for a few moments and then confirmed: “Yes, Ma’am, I used to work as a war reporter in Iraq, and I know what a bomb looks like.” He listened for a few more moments and then said: “Certainly, Ma’am, I shall make everyone get away from the bomb, and I’ll wait for the police to get here.” He made signs toward people around him to step away, and in less than five minutes, the first police car pulled up beside him. A corpulent commissioner got out of the car and asked in a thunderous voice: “Where is Viaceslav Barela?” When the journalist raised his hand, he walked toward him and asked: “And where is the bomb?” When Viaceslav indicated the sphere, the commissioner burst out in annoyance. “Does this look like a bomb to you? Who knows what a bloody chewing gum commercial this is, and you make the police come for nothing!” “If I had said that in the square, there was a black sphere swallowing up people, would anyone have believed me? Or you would have sent an ambulance to take me to the madhouse?” “A sphere swallowing people…” the commissioner burst out again, even more contemptuously. “I am thinking that you will end up with a serious fine.” Piotr Lew walked over to the commissioner, played the recording in front of him from the very beginning, and after he watched it all the way through, he spoke compellingly: “Commissioner, my colleague used to work as a war reporter in Iraq, so he can definitely tell a dangerous situation when he sees one. I’d say you’d better listen to him.” Overwhelmed by the situation, the commissioner gestured to the journalist to take the floor. “Commissioner, I believe that you should call in backup, plus a team with barricades, to keep everybody at a distance. Then I would call in the army, as it is very likely we may be dealing with a new type of gun and we don’t know how dangerous it is.” Viaceslav let the commissioner think everything over for a moment or so, and then uttered another thought that had just crossed his mind: “Just think about it. What if at some point this sphere feels like moving and starts absorbing everything in its path?” The commissioner got chills at that thought and started shouting orders over his radio. People who overheard the journalist thought that would be a very likely scenario, so despite their curiosity, they started to back away, putting a safe distance between themselves and the mysterious sphere.

Why are there so many pervy comments in here lmao

This was inspirational, even if it’s difficult I’m glad to know it can be done.

"I'm in my early 20s and I make very little money, cause I chose a career pursuing art, so I have to work several jobs" Wow you're soooooo unique, unlike all the other painters, musicians, performers and whathaveyou...

Im an artist in London, which is crazy expensive - but im a SELL OUT. i went for the steady pay-check at slots game company - which is popular amongst artists these days, and its growing in popularity on mobile devices. Its not a bad job at all, but its draining creatively. Mad respect for freelancers, especially ones that young.

With enough self-promotion and determination anyone can make a ton of money...but at what expense? I know established artists who can make upwards to 100K or more through Instagram, and then others who make no money off of it. She doesn't want to fall into the money trap. More money working for others = less time doing what you want. Balance is key.

Enjoy what you want to do we are only here one time on earth you have a talent not everyone can do or want to do I'm into art my self and as long as I don't overdo I don't have a problem with my body parts your doctor is right . Sound like a good doctor

Not one mention of Charles Shultz when they talk about Minneapolis .Shultz lived there and he made it famous

My PASSION is art and illustration but this economy and society just does not allow creative people to live a sustainable life. I watched my mom and dad both struggle with 2 jobs each just to keep the light on. In 2018 it’s even harder now. I do not want my children to grow up like we had to. I want to have enough money to give them choices. It brakes my heart that art is so unappreciated in our society. So many artist underpaid or taken advantage of, while fat cats up at the top and 1%ers line their pockets doing bare minimum. Creative individuals have to work sometimes 3 jobs just so they can keep doing what makes their heart happy while their mounting student debt eats up any chance they had to open a savings. I’ve had to look far and wide and compromise a lot of my passions to find a career path that comes close to what I really wanted to do with my life. It should not be this way. It takes talent,dedication, discipline, creativity, patience, and heart to do what artists do.....who decided that the price tag on that wasn’t even enough to live off of?

both very talented artists would love to see more of their work like post a link to their work wink wink.

Wow this makes me sad. I want to make comics for a living but it sounds like such a struggle

why no link to her website..?

I’m starting an illustration degree next September and I’m really nervous I won’t be able to support myself.

Minnesota!

What wonderful artists!!!

VFX and digital artists/ sculptors lives are similar, at least my life is, making movies are in no way glorious. thank you for sharing.

This is very inspiring.

it's neat seeing fellow Minnesotans... MCAD REPRESENT!!

It´s great that she has found what she loves and is making a profession of it.

I've been an illustrator for almost 30 years and in and out of the animation business and all I can say is that if you really want to succeed you have to hustle and work your ass off! Theres no way around it. Whatever you do, do not work for free and especially don't work for "exposure". I've never had a landlord that let me pay the rent with "exposure".

Everyone I see online is so amazing at art and still not making enough money. I'm so scared about the future. My future.

1:52 ...Not only of her age...oldies (compared to her) like me, too. Even seasoned in the job... at least in the field of illustration, comic, design... I need to do a bit of all, specially for times when a field gets more dry..... And this while also able to live with a small budget....

that's the spirit. i didn't have it and gave up on being a painter.

It's nice to know that the job I want is out there. It's never been about the money for me. It's all about passion. The will to create, be inspired, and inspire.

Wow. She’s good. I love what she said at the end.

WHAT?! I THOUGHT ART WAS JUST FOR FUN! Says everyone who isn't an artist. Lol... Yeah, guys. It's possible to have a job doing what you love to do.

Thanks for the video

One thing to keep in mind is that freelance work means much higher taxes (in the US). When you’re an employee you only pay half the taxes, with your employer pays the other half. And while freelancing you will be paying both sides. So, while making 60k is excellent, she will need to be paying over $10k in self employment taxes alone. Something to factor into your pricing decisions!

0:16 I drew a picture of this girl two years before I knew she existed. I drew a cartoon character with the same face shape, hair, and earrings. I draw what I wish I could look like.

heck! i didnt know before this but one of my comic collections are illustrated by her! Gotham Academy x Lumberjanes mashup series! she's so talented!

Being able to earn a living as an Artist is truly a dream come true. I am very happy for her thats awesome

Their life is so cool, man

Good thing to know. May relocate to Minneapolis.

whose is the work at 0:38? I recognise it but can't quite put my finger on it...

well it depends. There are those who create a massive business out of their work, sadly part of it is about how well ya sell yourself and how much you sell yourself for. As an artist you learn this the hard way.

oh. my god. I am in love with this woman. holy shit I have to get some of her drawings....she is sooo cool. gaaaahhhh I feel like an idiot. Rosemary you're awesome

A series by vice called _Tell Me Something I Know_

I'd like to get into this but I don't have the patience for drawing the same characters over and over again. I do think my art style would definitely bring something to the table though... Lots of eyeballs, tounges and a mix of several types of shading.

She is so talented and beautiful

hold up...everyone's talking about how little she makes. but if i've i watched the video correclty she's projected to make 60,000 that year. that's pretty good. the pay was rough at the beginning, but after sticking it out now she's making a good income off her own art from home. that sounds pretty good to me.

If I could, I would start a company for illustration/graphic/comic/animation artists to do their work and get paid very well. There's an animation department which are grouped by the shows people are assigned in. Graphic artists are like the marketing team, they hype up shows by creating colorful posters of characters in scenes and can also receive commissions from other companies that want to be marketed that way. A comic department where anyone can make their pitch and the company can work as their brand/publisher. Something like that...

I’m an art student, and I’m in my last semester of a four year degree, and I feel totally lost. I have no clue what to do or what to pursue in life after university. The worst part, is that I do not think the stuff I make is even good.... On a completely different note, I’ve never really had any pain in my hand, well not often. We’re trained to draw form the elbow. A lot of the time when drawing, my wrist and fingers are locked.

Damn this is terrifying. If you have to work 20 hours a day and not even get by what’s the point. This is so sad 🙁

I was going to do Webtoon and make a comic skit about a relationship within a City in Auckland!

This is so true omg! Why are artists paid so little. It shouldn't be this way.

All I can say is she's really lucky that she gets to do what she loves and enjoys. Their are probably millions of artists that will never get to work a job creating art for a living.

60 grand at 22 years old is literally fucking LOL. I've been in this business for 11 years now, and I've never come remotely close to that number. Halve it, and you're doing INCREDIBLY well, sadly.

Is that a shrine to Steve Buschemi? Cool