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News and Press Wondering what stories and articles are floating around about me? Here's where you'll find the latest information and news coverage. This would be my "situation room". (yeah, whatever) Need a great online entrepreneurial success story for your newspaper, magazine or TV show? If you need to conduct an interview about an online entrepreneur, Google AdSense, being a cartoonist, how to be a work at home dad, blogging as part of marketing, growing up in the 70's or anything fun, I'm your man. Contact me: 580-977-9947 curtis@curtistucker.com August 2009 - TravelGirl Magazine Photo and story coming July 2009 - Enid News and Eagle Enid is site of Oklahoma Transit conference “Transit 2.0” is the 2009 Conference on Oklahoma Transit, which opens today and continues through Tuesday at Cherokee Strip Conference Center. The conference is being hosted by Enid Transit. A Tuesday morning session on how to implement social networking through the Internet to further public transit services will highlight the gathering. The COT is produced by Oklahoma Transit Association, a non-profit organization representing the 23 public transit systems in the state. The keynote session will focus on how public transit systems can utilize Facebook, Twitter, Web sites, blogs and other social networking tools to further the business of public transportation, communicate with riders and further the system visibility. “Having our state conference in Enid and Garfield County is significant,” said Stephen F. Lalli, OTA executive director. “Enid Transit is the state and regional leader in developing fixed-route system for rural communities (less than 50,000 population). Garfield County is home of Garber-based Cherokee Strip Transit, which was named the 2008 OTA Transit System of the Year in January.” All sessions are part of the Oklahoma Transit Institute training, a certification process for transit professionals. This afternoon’s sessions include early-bird training on professional appearance in the workplace headed by Kathy Harris of NWOSU. Enid artist Curtis Tucker of Shaggy Duck Studios also will teach a session. Tucker designed the OTA logo and is the artist who has designed more than half of the souvenir T-shirts for the annual Oklahoma Bus Operators Roadeo competition. July 2009 - OKC News 9 KWTV Television - 6:00 Newscast News 9 did a story on the filming of "The Killer Inside Me" on their 6 o'clock newscast. I was asked if they could use a few of my photos for the story. This video was shot off of the TV and is a little stretched. July 2009 - CNN.com Interview & Photo - Homepage  By Lisa Respers France CNN (CNN) -- The picture says it all. Curtis D. Tucker was thrilled to receive a Farrah Fawcett poster for his 14th birthday in 1976. Curtis D. Tucker was thrilled to receive a Farrah Fawcett poster for his 14th birthday in 1976. The shot of 14-year-old Curtis D. Tucker shows him unrolling one of his birthday treasures in 1976, mouth slightly agape and eyes intensely focused on the gift. The present was one he had fervently requested from his parents and a hot item for many a young, red-blooded male during that bicentennial year: a poster of Farrah Fawcett (then known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors). "I was a huge Farrah fan," said Tucker, now a cartoonist and entrepreneur living in Enid, Oklahoma. "I had started collecting all of the magazines and pictures and I was basically pinning up every picture that came out of every magazine. Then along came that poster." "That poster" reportedly became the best-selling of all time -- with more than 12 million copies sold -- and helped make Fawcett one of the last great pinups. A private funeral is scheduled Tuesday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, California, for the actress who died at the age of 62 from cancer. With her famously thick blond hair, red swimsuit, and smile as big and bright as the California sun, the actress was the epitome of the wholesome, all-American girl. "She was full of life and so happy with that blond hair and that huge smile," said Tucker, who isn't sure if he still has the poster in his attic. "Without that poster, I don't think she would have become what she was." That freshness and beauty is what landed her poster on Tucker's, and countless others', bedroom walls. Maria Elena Buszek, the author of "Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture," said pinups "straddled the line between portraiture and pornography" and included early stage actresses, the famed models of Alberto Vargas and the most famous pinup of all, Bettie Page. Fawcett has her place in pinup history, said Buszek, an assistant professor of art history at Kansas City Art Institute, School of Liberal Arts. "The Farrah Fawcett poster really is one of the last iconic pinup images of the 20th century," Buszek said. "By the 1970s, because of the sexual revolution and mores about sexuality becoming looser in the west, the pinup does start to become more nostalgic." When the photo was taken, Fawcett had not yet become one of "Charlie's Angels," the role which helped make her a star. She was instead better known for her commercials and ads, most notably -- and not surprisingly -- for Wella Balsam shampoo. Photographer Bruce McBroom shot the now iconic image and told Entertainment Weekly that the starlet was at the time a young innocent from Texas who did her own hair and makeup for the shoot. "She had no idea of how beautiful and how attractive she was, I'm sure," McBroom recalled. "She was just like apple-pie, girl-next-door kind of girl, and in all the years I knew her she never changed." Now Fawcett's image, which was considered racy at the time, is a huge part of nostalgia. Ken Leicht, a manager of Hollywood Book and Poster Company in Los Angeles, said that before Fawcett's death, the poster was most in demand from production companies looking to stage the 1970s. "That poster, that shot of her, is just one of the definitive images of that time," Leicht said. "Most of the time with the posters, the teen girls are driving the market, and Farrah is probably one of the last ones that was for the guys." Leicht said actresses today, with the exception of a few like Pamela Anderson, don't really opt to market themselves using posters anymore. Matt Delzell, group account director for marketing and promotions agency The Marketing Arm, said that eventually the pinup transitioned more into supermodel pictures with the likes of Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Elle MacPherson, as well as the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Fawcett had the crossover appeal that went beyond just being a model, Delzell said. "The poster came along at a time when posters were popular and she had the right photographer and took the right photo," Delzell said. It certainly was the right shot for cartoonist Curtis D. Tucker. He wasn't a big fan of "Charlie's Angels," he said, so he wasn't that distressed when Fawcett left after only a year. After all, he was still able to keep her close. "The poster was something you had at home that you could look at every day," said Tucker, who kept the image up for several years. "I collected a few other pictures of some of the other Angels, but there wasn't anybody else after Farrah. She was the last." December 2008 - Midwest CEO Magazine Interview & Photo in the Goat Locker Section  ILLUSTRIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS “I’ve always been a doodler,” Curtis Tucker says as he thinks back on his road to success. In high school, Tucker did odd jobs designing logos and mascots for local businesses in his hometown of Enid, Oklahoma. But when college rolled around, he decided it was time to refine his doodles and become a graphic designer. Before long, Tucker was an advertising director responsible for producing what he calls “just your basic graphic design stuff.” But his heart was still with cartooning. “One day, I woke up and told my wife, ‘I just want to be a cartoonist,’” he says. His mind made up, Tucker started a Web site to promote his original works and soon found himself designing custom cartoons—everything from an “Indiana Jones” inspired duck to a fitness-minded bride—for companies around the world. Truly the pioneer of Internet-based cartoon sales, Tucker was in high demand as nearby as his own backyard and as far away as Bahrain. Today, the cartoon entrepreneur has numerous sites (like curtoons.com) to promote his illustrations, a blog (curtistucker.com) and an online greeting card company (chuckleberrys.com)—not bad for a guy who admits: “I basically made up all the rules as I went along.”  The Old News...May, 2008 - Enid, Oklahoma Curtis Tucker launches curtistucker.com a blog about That Sneaker Wearing Entrepreneurial Cartoonist Internet Guy. Memoirs of a Sneaker Wearing Dad will touch on life as a work at home dad, memories of being a kid in the 70's and ideas about being a future millionaire. November 2003 - World Wide Web The Curtoons Cartoon Company is chosen by Fast Company magazine and Seth Godin, author of the New York Times best seller Purple Cow, as one of the Top 500 companies and freelancers that can make their clients remarkable! These 500 companies have been compiled into an ebook called Bull Market 2004. 1995 - Enid, Oklahoma Curtis creates the Leonardo's Adventure Quest name and logo design in another local design contest. 1993 - Garfield County Curtis D. Tucker submits the winning design for the Garfield County flag and shield contest. 1993 - Enid, Oklahoma Curtis wins the KCRC Radio 1390 Logo Contest. August 1993 - Enid, Oklahoma Shaggy Duck Studios wins the Cherokee Strip Centennial Flag Design Contest for Oklahoma/Kansas. October 1992 - Oklahoma City Curtis wins the Rock 100.5 KATT Radio Calendar Design Contest for the second time. Interviewed by the Enid News and Eagle. October 1989 - Oklahoma City Curtis wins the Rock 100.5 KATT Radio Calendar Design Contest. Best selling poster design to date. Interviewed by the Enid News and Eagle. Live interview on the morning show. May, 1981 - Enid, Oklahoma Curtis D. Tucker graduates from Enid High School. The graduate wore a blue gown and walked across the runway in a matching blue head piece. December 20, 1962 - San Antonio, Texas At 6:36 a.m. Curtis Dean Tucker is born to Tilford Neal and Elizabeth Ann Tucker. Hospital records show that he weighed in at 6 lbs. 5 1/4 oz. and was 19 1/4 inches long. |
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