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Category: Cartoons

  • 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]

  • Ken Reid’s World Wide Weirdies

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    Ken Reid was a British comics artist who worked in newspaper comics in the middle of the 20th Century and later moved into working for comic books, notably for The Beano. He is probably best remembered now for his later series of comically horror-themed posters called World Wide Weirdies that ran in a publication called…

  • Jonathan Jones’ top five rabbits in art

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    I don’t know how small long-eared mammals (not to mention the shelled embryos of certain avian species and similarly shaped confections) came to be associated with the Christian holiday observance of Easter, but there they are, popping up in popular culture all over the place. Jonathan Jones, writing in his OnArt blog on Guardian.co.uk, uses…

  • Charles Kaufman

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    Charles Kaufman is a painter, cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist. His work has appeared in a long list of publications, from underground comix and CARtoons to the Wall Street Journal-Europe, Focus, Computer Artist, Editor & Publisher, New Media and a host of others, along with a range of commercial clients. His is the creator of…

  • PumpkinMixer

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    I don’t often talk about my own projects on Lines and Colors, but sometimes they’re enough fun to be worthy of note. PumpkinMixer is my new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Like my other apps, DinoMixer and MonsterMixer, it was developed with my friend and colleague Leon Stankowski, who created the coding to…

  • Chappatte

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    Patrick Chappatte is a political cartoonist with an international reach, and a personal history to match. Born in Pakistan, Chappatte was raised in Singapore and later Switzerland. He lived in New York for a time and now lives and works in Geneva. Chappette’s global view comes across in his cartoons for the International Herald Tribune…