Category: Cartoons
-
Drawn 2005-2013
I was sorry to learn today that Drawn, one of the bright go-to points on the web for regular shots of cartooning and illustration inspiration, has ended its run after 8 years. Started in early 2005 by cartoonist and illustrator John Martz, and eventually drawing on a collaborative rooster of artists, Drawn was always finding…
-
Cartoon Kevin
“Cartoon Kevin” is a project by Kevin McShane in which he has over a period of two years drawn cartoon self portraits in the style of 100 different animation artists, from Winsor McCay to this year’s fascinating Disney short, Paperman (my post here). When viewing the images, hover for the style, click for the larger…
-
Stephen Gilpin
Stephen Gilpin is a Kansas based illustrator whose clients include Harper Collins, Random House, Simon and Schuster, Scholastic and the Wall Street Journal. He has a fresh, crisp, cartoon illustration style well suited to his work in children’s book illustration. He strikes a nice balance between rendering and flatter areas of color, while keeping the…
-
Fleischer Studios Superman Cartoons online
I’ve written before about the superb series of Superman cartoons done in the 1940’s by the studios of Max and Dave Fleischer. These are beautiful examples of hand drawn animation, essentially film noir adventure stories with great design, rendering and animation; and, as far as I’m concerned, the best film adaptation of the character ever.…
-
Franz Jüttner
Franz Jüttner was a German illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist about whom there seems to be little available information on the net (at least that I can find without knowledge of the German language). Unfortunately there are not many images either, but the ones that are available, primarily his illustrations from a well regarded German edition…