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Comics and Cartooning

 

A long time love of mine, since childhood, has been drawing and cartooning. Never really that good at it but here are some links to a few of my favorite artists, resources and information.

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Artists

Cartoon, Illustrators, and more...

Sergio Aragonés

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Born in Spain, Aragonés had a passion for art since early childhood. As one anecdote goes, Aragonés was once left alone in a room by his parents with a box of crayons. His parents returned sometime later to find that he had covered the wall in hundreds upon hundreds of drawings.

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Lou Brooks

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R. Crumb

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( from their site ) - Robert Crumb was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 30, 1943, to a Marine father and Catholic mother. His family moved frequently during his childhood, and moved to Delaware in 1956 when his father retired after twenty years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Robert’s mother often behaved erratically and was probably manic depressive. Robert was a faithful Catholic until he was sixteen. His biggest influence during his youth was his older brother Charles, who loved comics and who co-wrote many of the comics they produced as children. Crumb was anything but popular in high school and felt alienated.

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Randy Glasbergen

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Gene Gonzales
P.O. Box 773
Largo, Florida 33779
Phone: (727) 230-9697

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(from artist's site) - I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Burbank, California. I entered the field of commercial illustration in 1992. My artwork has been commissioned by The Hewlett-Packard Company, University of Southern California, Rogersol, Inc., Rycoline, Inc. and others. I also create a great deal of artwork to many education book publishers including, McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall, Addison Wesly Longman, and others.

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Christopher Hart
Art Studio, LLC
Westport, Connecticut <##>

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Christopher Hart is an award-winning and best-selling author whose books have set the standard for art technique, both nationally and internationally, with close to three million copies in print. He lives with his family in Westport, Connecticut.

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(from artist's site) - Chris Hart is the author of the award wining book series, “Manga Mania.” His books have sold over 2.5 million copies, in 20 languages. Since 2000, he has had 21 books on the top 50 best-selling list in the overall art category in the nation, according to Nielsen Bookscan. Also according to Bookscan, he has had the number 1, 2 and 3 Best-Selling art books in the country at the same time.

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Pete Joison

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I just love this style of illustration and art. Check out the Blurburger site for some great icons and wallpapers. I use the wallpaper on my Mac and as a screen saver. Pete also designed the banners for CurtSheller.com and JazzGuitarResources.com

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Hugh MacLeod

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( from artist's site ) - Hugh Mac­Leod is a car­too­nist, who makes his living publishing fine art prints via the inter­net. His first book, “Ignore Every­body” is published by Port­fo­lio, an imprint of Pen­guin.

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Scott McCloud

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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
by Scott McCloud (Paperback - Sep 1, 2006)

“If you've ever felt bad about wasting your life reading comics, then check out Scott McCloud's classic book (Undrestanding Comics) immediately. You might still feel you've wasted your life, but you'll know why, and you'll be proud.” Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.

“BRAVO!! Your Undrestanding Comics is a landmark dissection and intellectual consideration of comics as a valid medium. Its employment of comic art as its vehicle is brilliant. Everyone...anyone interested in this literary form must read it. Every school teacher should have one.” - Will Eisner

“...one of the most insightful books (Undrestanding Comics) about designing graphic user interfaces ever written, even though it never discusses the subject directly.” - Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld

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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
by Scott McCloud (Paperback - April 27, 1994)

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Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form
by Scott McCloud (Paperback - Aug 1, 2000)

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Mother Goose & Grimm

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(from artist's site) - Mike Peters is recognized as one of our nation's most prominent cartoon artists for his outstanding work as both a political and comic strip cartoonist.  His favorite expression WHAT A HOOT certainly sums up his outlook on his life and work which are inexorably entwined.  Mike's warm, easygoing and zany demeanor is evidence that his personality matches his creative talents.  As so eloquently phrased by a colleague -- "Mike is the Peter Pan of the cartooning world; he's boyishly charming, good with a rapier and doesn't spend a lot of time on the ground.  And he doesn't seem to want to grow up".

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Max Riffner

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Max Riffner proudly designs, codes, and illustrates websites and sequential art from the heart of the Midwest in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Charlie Schultz
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) )
Creator of Charlie Brown and Peanuts

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( from listing's site ) - Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being", according to Professor Robert Thompson of Syracuse University. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers.

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Roy Scott
PA
Tel: 610.664.1085
Cell: 610.585.1252
Fax: 610.664.1085

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( from artist's site ) - Roy Scott is an artist that incorporates digital and traditional media to create illustrations for editorial, advertising, publishing and corporate venues. His work communicates ideas with bold color, rich textures and intricate compositions, pushing the boundaries between conceptual illustration, photo-collage and fine art. Roy Scott’s illustration and design have been featured in many leading publications and corporate communications worldwide.

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Simon's Cat
Simon Tofield
London, Unithed Kingdom

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( from artist's site ) - Simon is an English animator who has a great interest in British wildlife, painting, the great outdoors and of course cats.

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Elwood H. Smith
41 Locust Grove Road
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
phone: 845.876.2358

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Jeff Smith
Bone

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cover_history-bone1.jpg Born and raised in the American mid-west, Jeff Smith learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and watching animation on TV. In 1991, he launched a company called Cartoon Books to publish his comic book BONE, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from Boneville. Against all odds, the small company flourished, building a reputation for quality stories and artwork. Word of mouth, critical acclaim, and a string of major awards helped propel Cartoon Books and BONE to the forefront of the comic book industry. In 1992, Jeff’s wife Vijaya Iyer joined the company as partner to handle publishing and distribution, licensing, and foreign language publications. In the Spring of 2005, Harry Potter’s U.S. publisher Scholastic entered the graphic novel market by launching a new imprint, Graphix with a full color version of BONE: Out from Boneville, bringing the underground comic to a new audience and a new generation. In 2007, DC Comics will release Smith’s first non-creator owned work, SHAZAM! Monster Society of Evil, a four-part mini-series recreating a classic serial from comic’s Golden Age. Between projects, Smith spends much of his time on the international guest circuit promoting comics and the art of graphic novels. For more details on Self-publishing and Jeff’s comics career, see The History of Bone and Jeff Smith on the Bone Page

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Art Spiegelman
New York, NY ZIP

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( from WidipediA's site ) - Art Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden to Vladek Spiegelman and Anja Spiegelman (nee Zylberberg), Polish-Jewish refugees. Spiegelman grew up in Rego Park in Queens, New York City, New York and graduated from the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan. Spiegelman attended Binghamton University, called Harpur College at the time. He did not graduate but received an honorary doctorate from there 30 years later. At Harpur, Spiegelman audited classes by the innovative filmmaker Ken Jacobs and became friends with him. Spiegelman has acknowledged being strongly inspired by Jacobs' work and thought.[1]

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Bob Staake
The Bob Staake Studio
274 Main Street
Chatham, MA 02633
Phone: 508 945 0191
(strictly a 9-5 operation)

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The Complete Book of Humorous Art (Hardcover)
by Bob Staake

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Lewis Trondheim

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Favorite Cartoons

 

Cap'n Crunch
Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch

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(Ed.) One of my favorite foods as kid and I still love the original.

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( from WikipediA site ) - Cap'n Crunch is a sweetened corn and oat breakfast cereal manufactured by Quaker Oats Company and introduced in 1963. Pamela Low, a flavorist at Arthur D. Little and "the mother of Cap'n Crunch," developed the flavor from a brown sugar and butter recipe that her grandmother had served over rice.

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The Flintstones

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(from WikipediA) The Flintstones, an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, is one of the most successful animated television series of all time. Loosely based upon the 1950s live-action sitcom The Honeymooners, The Flintstones originally ran in American prime time for six seasons, from 1960 to 1966, on the ABC network.

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Rocky & Bullwinkle
Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel

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bulllogo.gif Rocky And His Friends premiered on ABC on November 19, 1959. The series featured a segment called Rocky And Bullwinkle, about Rocky the squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose going up against Mr. Big/Fearless Leader, who sent agents Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale to deal with the Moose and Squirrel. It also featured segments called Fractured Fairy Tales, Aesop And Son, Peabody's Improbable History, and Mr. Know It All in each episode. After 2 years on ABC, the show moved to NBC as "The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle" (aka "The Bullwinkle Show"), rerunning the original cartoon segments in different order and adding two new segments called Dudley Do-Right Of The Mounties and Bullwinkle's Corner.

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The Jetsons

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(from WikipediA) The Jetsons was a prime-time American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. Like The Flintstones, it was a half-hour family sitcom projecting contemporary American culture and lifestyle into other time periods. While the Flintstones lived in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons lived in a utopian future of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions. Also, the Flintstones represented the contemporary American blue collar lifestyle while the Jetsons were white collar.

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Quick Draw McGraw

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(from WikipediA) Quick Draw McGraw is the name of a fictional cartoon horse, created by Hanna-Barbera and the star of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Hanna-Barbera's third show produced for television after success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in 1959; Quick Draw was voiced by voice actor Daws Butler. Michael Maltese crafted most of the episode stories.

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The Simpsons

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(from WikipediA) The Simpsons is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Network. It became one of the first hits for the network, and is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed television shows in the history of the medium. The television series is a spin-off of a series of animated shorts originally aired on The Tracey Ullman Show.

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Software

 

Boinx
GeBE Computer & Peripherie GmbH
Lilienthalstrasse 1
82178 Puchheim
Germany

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ToonBoom
Corporate Headquarters
7 Laurier Avenue East
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2T 1E4
Tel: (514) 278-8666
Fax: (514) 278-2666

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( from listing's site ) - Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader in animation software solutions. Toon Boom carries user-friendly animation applications for all and develops new geographies to make the animation community as global as can be. In that market segment, Toon Boom caters to the needs of children, home users, creative professionals as well as students, educators and schools.

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How To

 

  • How To Draw Cartoon Characters - Learn the techniques on drawing cartoons professionally

    Paul South has been drawing cartoons and cartoon art professionally for almost twenty years. His cartoons and  illustrations have been published in major newspapers, both national and international.

My Samples

 

As a budding artist all my life and a love of cartooning. Here are some of the art that I've created that I have in the computer.

For my racewalking related art check out this link.

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