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Category: Cartoons

  • Drawn! (update)

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    A tip of the hat to Johnny at Drawn! for their recent mention of my post on Illustrators’ Visions of Santa Claus.. This seems a convenient time to mention Drawn! again. For those of you who aren’t already regular readers, the promise of a little time off over the holidays may be opportune for getting…

  • Gary Locke

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    There is a style in illustration, particularly advertising illustration, in which exaggerated, cartoon-like drawings are rendered in detailed style usually applied to more realistic images. It’s a nice idea that is harder than it looks and consequently rarely done well. Gary Locke is one of the few illustrators who gets it right. His wonderfully exaggerated…

  • Heinrich Kley

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    The relationship of humanity to the natural world is receiving a bit more attention these days, as it becomes clearer that we’re not cleaning the big cat-box we’ve made of our Eden. Artists are often quicker to notice these things than others and some have been pointing out that strained relationship for a long time.…

  • Tony Auth

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    People who enjoy reading the days’ editorial cartoon feel lucky if they live in a city where the editorial cartoonist in the major paper is one they like. I’m fortunate to live in the Philadelphia area where we have two (count ’em, two) terrific cartoonists that I like: Tony Auth, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and…

  • Thomas Nast

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    Thomas Nast has been called the father of American political cartooning, and rightly so. He is responsible for the initial portrayal of the Republican and Democratic parties as elephant and donkey and created the familiar image of Uncle Sam to represent the US as a whole (with a little help from English illustrator Sir John…

  • Olga Antonenko & Arseny Gutov

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    Olga Antonenko & Arseny Gutov are Russian concept artists, matte painters and illustrators who work in a variety of traditional and digital media. On their shared gallery site, CGpolis, you’ll find drawings, engravings, paintings, pastel, digital painting and 3-D CGI rendering and compositing. The GCpolis site is somewhat enigmatic and mentions neither artist by name,…