state of freelance illustration

Dur­ing the sec­ond week of July, I was for­tu­nate to attend ICON10 in Detroit, Michi­gan. ICON, also known as the Illus­tra­tion Con­fer­ence, gath­ers every two years and boasts work­shops, illus­tra­tor talks, and pan­el dis­cus­sions about top­ics that per­tain to the…