Q: I'm a newspaper editor who is interested in publishing your cartoons daily. Can you GUARANTEE that your cartoons will increase circulation?
A: Yes! Using a humorous cartoon in every issue of your publication is the most cost-effective way to ensure that it will be opened and read.

Q: I want to use one or more of your cartoons. How much do you charge?
A: The amount varies. Please read the "Use My Cartoons" page for details.

Q: Are the prices that you have listed flexible?
A: Yes, make me an offer. The worst thing that can happen is that I might turn you down.

Q: Your cartoon gallery is incomplete. Only cartoons numbered 601 to 702 and 762 to 815 are in your gallery, but where are all the rest?
A: The point of the gallery is to show newspaper editors both the quality and consistency of my cartoons with out risking over exposer. 153 cartoons should be enough to meet that task.

Q: What is your cartoon about?
A: The philosophy behind the television show "Seinfeld" was that it was a show about "nothing". Not that it had nothing, but that it was about nothing. Previously, situation comedies (sit-coms), focused on situations rather than "real life" as a springboard for humor. Seinfeld was not about zany, odd, predictable, contrived situations - all the show really had (and all it really ever needed) was good writing. NORMandCompany is, similarly, about nothing. It is not a comic panel about a "bratty, but lovable, trouble-making kid." It is not about a "lazy, fat, sarcastic cat." It is not about "Screwball characters on a poorly run military base." NORMandCompany is about nothing. It has good writing. (And that is all it really needs.)

Q: Who is "Norm"?
A: A comic panel about "nothing", as one might guess, has few characters to boast about. Norm is the main character of NORMandCompany and is the quintessential straight man. Low key, bespectacled, Norm is the blank canvas on which readers paint themselves into the cartoon. Norm was named after my grandfather - Norm Schaefer.

Q: Norm has a dog that looks a lot like him. What is the dog's name?
A: His name has never been used, but I think it would be clever if Norm's dog's name was "Maul".

Q: Ten years ago the name of your cartoon was "The Loose End". Why did you change it?
A: I wanted a title that included the main character's name.

Q: The newspaper I subscribe to does not feature your cartoon. How might this travesty of justice be corrected?
A: Go online and search for your paper's website. Find the applicable editor's email address and refer him to my main page here: http://www.normandcompany.com/

Q: Until my newspaper starts featuring your cartoon - how can I see your NEW cartoons?
A: You can join me on facebook - Look for "Paul Kinsella (from "New Athens, IL.) http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001612050125  I'll publish my new cartoons there.

Q: I don't "get" one of your cartoons. Can you explain it to me?
A: You can post it on this forum here: http://forum.normandcompany.com/ I and some other forum members will be happy to TRY to explain it to you.

Q: I'd like to hire you to draw some custom cartoons. Do you do that sort of thing?
A: Yes. Contact me with your offer.

Q: I'm a newspaper editor in need of an in-house cartoonist/illustrator. Would you be willing to move to my city?
A: Moving is probably not necessary. With the help of work-at-home technology I can function as your paper's in-house cartoonist/illustrator just as well from where I am now. And, as a bonus, you won't need to put up with my boorish behavior at office parties.

Q: I have a wild idea! Can you make a xxxxxxxxx cartoon of a xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx with a xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx for a xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx?
A: I'll do almost any project, regardless of how large or strange, if the price is right. Send me details of your project idea and what sort of budget you have in mind and I'll let you know.

Q: How do I contact you?
A: Please read my "Contact Page".