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Category: Cartoons

  • How Do Artists Protect Their Work Online? on Symbiartic

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    Writing for Symbiartic, a blog devoted to scientific art on Scientific American that he co-authors with Kalliopi Monoyios, Glendon Mellow recently asked several science related artists to comment on the question How Do Artists Protect Their Work Online? Mellow asked me to participate, which I did in my role as the author/artist of Dinosaur Cartoons…

  • Chuck Jones shows how to draw Bugs Bunny and other WB characters

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    Here are a few short videos (on YouTube) in which the ever brilliant Chuck Jones shows how he draws some of his iconic characters: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Pepe le Pew, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. “…learn how to draw a carrot, then you can hook a rabbit onto it.” “Depending on what our…

  • Ronald Searle, 1920-2011

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    Perhaps more than any other art form, cartoons can serve to foment dissent, arouse ire at injustice, mock the powers that be and shake up the status quo. Which brings us to the brilliant cartoonist Ronald Searle, who died December 30, 2011 at the age of 91. I’ve listed some obits below, along with links…

  • Elwood H. Smith (update)

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    As I mentioned in my previous post about him from 2007, Elwood H. Smith has a delightful illustration style that carries echoes of great comic strips from the early part of the 20th Century, and somehow manages to look both retro and modern simultaneously. Smith hits the right balance for me between old and new,…

  • Edward Sorel: Nice Work If You Can Get It

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    Edward Sorel: Nice Work If You Can Get It is a 20 minute documentary about the well known cartoonist and satirist filmed by his son, Leo Sorel. In it the cartoonist discusses his career, his freeform, direct-in-ink drawing process and his degree of self criticism. There is also commentary from some of his famous contemporaries…

  • Cartoon Color Wheel

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    Here’s a fun notion; the Slate Magazine blog, Culturebox, has put together an interactive color wheel of cartoon characters arranged by their hue (and, correctly enough, by intensity, as indicated by our grayish friends at the center of the wheel). In the original, you can mouse over the characters for identification. [Via Cartoon Brew]