Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Cartoons

  • W. Heath Robinson

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    William Heath Robinson wanted to be a landscape painter. Even after his study at the Islington Art School and later at the Royal Academy, he came to the realization that he could support himself better by following his brothers Charles and Thomas into the burgeoning field of illustration. (See my post on Charles Robinson.) The…

  • Howtoons

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    I’ve long been fascinated with the idea of comics and cartoons as a medium for instruction or teaching. Here’s an interesting take on that idea. Howtoons is a series of how-to projects for kids (or adults going through a second childhood) presented as comic strips or cartoon-like panels. In them we’re introduced to Tucker and…

  • Ron Cobb

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    I’ve been wanting to write a post on Ron Cobb for some time now. Cobb is a cartoonist, film production designer and concept artist from Los Angeles, currently living and working in Sydney, Australia. When I went to write a post on Cobb last year, I was disappointed to find that there wasn’t much material…

  • Sundays with Walt and Skeezix (Gasoline Alley by Frank King)

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    In 2005 Sunday Press Books published a remarkable collection of Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay’s astonishing early 20th Century comic strip, printed at the size of the original full page newspaper comics. (See my post on both McCay and the book.) Thanks to the risky but brilliant choice of format, So Many Splendid Sundays…

  • Ed “Big Daddy” Roth

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    At some point in my impressionable youth, I was exposed to certain “corrupting influences” that twisted my little brain into a fevered pop culture pretzel and made me not only want draw comics and cartoons, but draw outrageous and weird comics and cartoons. One was my discovery of paperback reprints of E.C. Mad comics from…

  • J.J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gèrard)

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    How cool would it be if we could actually see the whole intricate pattern of the influences of one artist on another that make up the brilliant, if ragged, cloth of art history. The best any one individual can hope for is glimmers and flashes of interconnectedness where the pattern reveals a small portion of…