Episode 87 – “MSCA 2025 Year End Review”

Lin WorkmanDec 5, 2025

Show notes: It’s time for our annual MSCA Year End Review with the Mid-South Cartoonists Association’s president Kevin L. Williams. We grabbed some dinner at Huey’s in midtown, and then headed over to his place to record this episode. We look back on events from another busy art year for us, and we look ahead to what’s coming up for our cartooning group, and other seasonal events and holiday markets in and around Memphis.

We also discuss details on the MSCA‘s Monthly Dinner Gatherings at Garibaldi’s Pizza (1st Tuesday of each month from 6-8pm), our recent Annual Holiday Art Swap, the upcoming “The Art Of The Game” happening in December/January at the Memphis Jewish Community Center, our other previous art shows at Germantown Community Theatre and Playhouse on the Square, our group anthology zine, Rouge’s Gallery events, Ave Maria Home visits, the local convention scene, Con Cards, Choose 901 article, Andre L. Miller, and more.

We also look back at some of the interviews I did for the 17 episodes of “Drawing Funny” in 2025 such as Holtermmonster with the Monster Market, Beale Street Monster Club‘s co-founder Michael Cox, MSCA alum Mike Norton, Comics Universe owner “Lethal” Rethal Miller, Greg Cravens, Ryan “Big Daddy” Ladner, That Katie Jones, my wife Nicki Workman, and appearances on the Comic Geek Speak podcast and Geek Tank Radio show on 98.1 The Max/News Talk 989.

It was definitely another busy year for all of us artists in 2025. Hope to see you around the M-Town in 2026. Be sure to slide by the many MSCA events going on around the mid-south area, and please stop by my con table and say hi, and/or hit me up to be on the podcast!

Hope you’re all doing well and have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Fantastic Festivus, and a wonderful New Year.

LINKS:

Drawing Funny Podcast website – ⁠www.drawingfunny.com⁠

Drawing Funny Podcast on Spotify – ⁠www.podcasters.spotify.com/⁠

Drawing Funny Podcast on Apple – www.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drawing-funny/

Lin Workman Art Site – www.linworkman.com/

Have Geek Will Travel (Beale Street visit) – www.havegeekwilltravel.com/

Mid-South Cartoonists Association/MSCA (Memphis, TN) – ⁠www.midsouthcartoonists.org

Rogue’s Gallery Memphis Geekery Art – www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558445560338

Beale Street Monster Club – www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554859980515

Memphis Monster Market – www.memphismonstermarket.com/

Memphis Arts Collective – www.memphisartscollective.com/

Dale Martin artist – www.smearysoapboxpress.wordpress.com/

Garibaldi’s Pizza (U of M) – ⁠www.garibaldispizza.com

Memphis Japan Fest – www.memphisjapanfestival.org/

Toshigawa Universe (store) – www.toshigawa-universe.square.site/

Playhouse On The Square – www.playhouseonthesquare.org/

Germantown Community Theatre – www.gctcomeplay.org/

Memphis Jewish Community Center – www.jccmemphis.org/

Comic Geek Speak Ep. 1979 – www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodeDetails.html?episodeId=2897

Geek Tank Radio Ep. – www.geektankradio.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/geek-tank-radio-7-06-2025-lin-workman-and-the-art-business/

DF Episode 69 – “Leg Godt = Play Well” (Hernando Bricks & Mini Figs) – www.drawingfunny.com/2024/11/21/episode-69-leg-godt-play-well/

Choose 901 (MSCA article) – www.choose901.com/drawing-community-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-mid-south-cartoonists-association/

“Mule/SIVAD On The Street” video (YouTube) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkPg7jxvR0k

SIVAD/WHBQ sales presentation video (YouTube) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=udRTQ4Bx-2I

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Theme: music ⁠“Silly Bank Heist” plus “Swingin’ Sleighride” and “Presents On Christmas Morning” by Steve Oxen⁠⁠.⁠ News intro theme by David Fesliyan. “Holiday Hustle” by David Renda.

©2020 ⁠Fesliyan Studios Inc.⁠ – music and sound effects used by permission. Please DO NOT add this audio content to the YouTube Content ID System. I have used background music which is owned by ⁠Fesliyan Studios⁠.

Harmonica solos by Kevin L. Williams/Soloman DH Blues.

Movie quotes and additional sounds from ⁠101soundboards.com.

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Run time: 1hr 36min 11sec

(Click on the highlighted hyperlinks or links in the show notes to check them all out.)

MSCA 2025 Holiday Art Swap at Garibaldi’s Pizza.

***SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!!!***

I need to make some Christmas cash, and if you need some unique holiday gifts be sure to check out my art sale. Details in this episode and on my art website at www.LinWorkman.com. Free delivery in the mid-south for the monsterpiece paintings, and sorry- no shipping. Cash (PayPal or card) and carry, only.