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'''Rick London-Stetelman (Rick London) is a Mississippi writer and cartoonist. He is considered somewhat of an enigma in cartoon culture in that he does not illustrate his own cartoons, simply creates the concepts, writes the captions, and assigns them to his team artists. Only about ten or so percent of cartoons are created like that.

In the fashion world, possibly the only well-known designer who used this model was Yves St. Laurent in that he did not illustrate his fashions either but delegated/assigned.

London was born Jewish, in a small Mississippi town and was generally considered quite creative by teachers and peers.

It was not until he was forty-seven years old that he took thousands of cartoon concepts he'd written out of a shoebox, discovered the Internet, and began assigning them to artist-friends.

At first, it was slow. He could not even afford to purchase a domain so he posted on free sites in which pop up ads outnumbered the cartoons.

Today, London owns, possibly one of the largest inventory of cartoons (around 8000) on his site at www.londonstimes.us.

Alexa.com, Amazon.com's statistics gathering site, generally places his site in the top 100,000 most popular sites.

His work has been compared to The Far Side, and London has a "reviews" page on his site in which many notables have commented on his works.

London considers himself a "late bloomer" and did not start college until age forty-eight. He is a business information management student at Western Governors University.

He is also a screenplay writer and is in the process of finishing his third screenplay. '''

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