Popeye Reasons To Be Animated

Obviously, Popeye cartoons use many ingredients to make them so special. Throbbing is one of them.Personality is another, but those are secondary qualities of cartoons. Well, actually maybe throbbing is pretty important since it is hard to imagine live action being able to throb to the beat.But the one creative quality that is unique to animated cartoons is demonstrated artfully in this here

Highlights Of Seminar

Don Martin a Cartoon Original

Don Martin has to be in the top 5 most original cartoonists in history.One of the reasons I started my blog was because it was depressing to see how inbred modern cartoons had become and I figured if I started posting a wide variety of cartoon styles that had life, individuality, humor and skill that maybe the next generation of cartoonists would have a wider assortment of inspirations that just

Little Iodine and The Cartoon Rule Of Starched Skirts

aI like this style. It's sort of a cross between Jimmy Hatlo and Chic Young.Compared to animation of the same time period it's a bit stiff, but it has other attributes:Great linework, interesting detail and a gritty man-on-the-street sort of outlook.I like the perception of the world that many strip cartoonists had ( as opposed to Disney-influenced animation designers). They pictured everyone

Cartoony, Graphic and Directly to the Point: Kurtzman's Hey Look

Harvey Kurtzman's "Hey Look" is UPA before UPA. It's also something more. It has the graphic qualities of "Gerald McBoing Boing" and "Fudget's Budget", but without abandoning its cartoony roots. It's similar to T. Hee's style, but with a lot more verve.Technically, Harvey has a lot of obvious great qualities but above and beyond them all is his ability to balance them graphically to convey a

Crystal Studies

these are my cartooned versions of what I like about Kirby's Crystal character.

Pure Cartoon Genius

Scribner is that rare combination of great animator and cartoonist.This looks like a Johnny Hart expression!

Carlos Nine

JoJo turned me on to a cartoonist I didn't know about. Carlos Nine combines illustration and cartoon skills into one fantastic style.I'm hoping Jojo will scan the pages Nine drew with Popeye and Olive for us. You'll die!I think you can buy Nine's comic, Meurtres et Chatiments here, but I'm not sure how:http://www.stuartngbooks.com/preview_nine_meurtres.htmlhttp://ronniedelcarmen.blogspot.com/2007

Cartoony Principles 1: Contrasts

I did this drawing the other day in a private lesson as an example of exaggerating what you see by using the principle of contrast.My student had copied this Preston Blair drawing above and had drawn the proportions too conservatively. The baby's head was too small in comparison to his body. I'll ask him if I can use the drawing to show you, but basically he undertured it.He was actually trying

Jim Tyer Likes You

Boy, talk about "Man Cartoonists". Jim Tyer is the definition of one. This guy had the power to shoot his pure funny thoughts straight from his brain through his pencil to hit the paper unfiltered by preconceived rules, model sheets or second-guessing. He just drew what he felt - and he felt that kids deserved fun.That's kind of how I draw storyboards, but I always intend to "fix" things later in

Cartoons With Surreal Backgrounds

PORKY IN WACKYLAND

Less Lines, More Thought and More Life

I think that it's more daring to draw cartoons with just a few lines and details than it is to do fake "realistic" animation.You can't hide your ideas and skills under a lot of non-essential surface extras.In my opinion, Irv Spector here draws a million times better than all those nasty Filmation like humanoid mannequin cartoons.In just a few lines, he shows characters with attitudes, acting,

Cartoons Instead Of Torture

SEE THE LATEST HENERY MAN CARTOON!Imagine what it would be like if they showed cartoons before the movie, instead of a half hour of commercials?It's hard for me to believe that they can charge you 10 bucks and then show you a half hour of commercials and say the movie has been "brought to you by The U.S. Marines" or Coke or whatever. How has it been brought to us by anyone if we have to pay for

Heaven Sends Me Sad Sack

I'm gonna prove to you that Jesus loves war and a good cartoon butt-stabbing as much as the rest of us.This is George Baker's early style. He was a real cartoonist. Pure and full of honest humanity.I always liked his work. Gritty, funny, manly, ribald and to the point.It got a lot more stylish as time went on and I find it really interesting to see how it started.This early stuff is more

Kurtz College Cartoons

Harvey Kurtzman has a powerful talent for directness in his drawings. He makes strong definite statements with very few details.His continuity is equally direct and clear.He is creative in the old sense of the word - meaning full of inventiveness and ideas.He can even make crowds clear and easy to read.He gets a lot of gags into a single assignment- all these last crowds are from one masterful

Hey Look!

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