Thursday, September 27, 2012

Week 5: Lyonel Feininger

Feininger was a cartoonist, charicaturist, and expressionist. Joy.
His comic work is apparently not worth talking about, for how much more often his other artwork seems to show up.

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And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be unconsious for the next sixteen hours.

Week Five: Jaime Hernandez

Brother of Gilbert Hernandez and another co-publisher of Love and Rockerts. His primary contribution is the ongoing story Locas. Like his older brother, Jaime also seems to like drawing curvy women, but his style isn't quite as hideous.









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Gilbert Hernandez

Cartoonist best known for his Palomar/Heartbreak Soup stories, which were published in the alternative comic book Love and Rockets. Jaime Hernandez is his brother. It would seem he really loved to draw super-curvey women with less-than-attractive faces. He must be a lonely guy.







Really, really, really lonely

Week 5: Herge

Herge is known for two things: having a real name that just about nobody bothers to remember and creating The Adventures of Tintin.









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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Week 4: Jack "The King" Kirby

One of the comic book legends, I'd guess. I certainly hear his name often enough. Just looking down the list of characters he created and co-crated, he made... holy cow that's a lot... Captain America, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Nick Fury, X-Men, The Avengers, Iron Man, Black Panther,Machine Man, The Eternals, Devil Dinosaur, Silver Surfer, Challengers Of The Unknown, New Gods (including Darkseid), Etrigan the Demon, Kamandi The Last Boy On Earth, OMAC The One Man Army Corps, and Kobra. And probably other stuff, too.

I wanna try making a Kirby krackle effect now.

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Week 4: Walt Kelly

Hillariously enough, Walt Kelly started out working for Walt Disney--but he didn't stay long, it seems. After resigning, he switched to comic strips and came up with Pogo.



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Week 4: Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor is a cartoonist that, among other things, is responsible for creating Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.

Can't say I care uch for his art. In fact, I think I like it less the more I look at it.






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Week 4: George Herriman

George Herriman was a cartoonist that had been working professionally since age 17. He seems to have made all sorts of different comics, but his most famous work is Krazy Kat. Skimming through Google Image Search reveals two interesting features of Herriman's work: an atmospheric use of black and adventurousness with panel layouts.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Week 3: Gary Panter

Panter is a post-underground cartoonist and on top of comics and illustrations also did painting and design. Apparently, he designed the sets of Pee Wee's Playhouse...which explains a lot, regarding the images below.









Week 3: Winsor McKay

Or Winsor McCay, as Google--and indeed, pretty much the entire internet--insists on spelling it. Anyway, he's an animator and cartoonist, responsible for the comics A Tale of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle, Little Sammy Sneeze, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, The Story of Hungry Henrietta, A Pilgrim's Progress, Poor Jake, and most famously, Little Nemo in Slumberland.

I wouldn't mind getting a look at Little Nemo--I'm given to understand it's got a charming surreality and creative spirit to it. I wonder if I could find it online? It's bound to be public domain by now...



I get the feeling that this sequnce is what most people think of when they think of Little Nemo

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Week 3: Lorenzo Mattotti

Itallian cartoonist and illustrator, Mattotti is known for, among other things, his magezine illustrations and graphic novel adaptation of Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde.

If nothing else, he's got an interesting and unique look to his work.









Week 3: Harvey Kurtzman

Harvey Harvey Harvey Kurtzman, the fouder of Mad magezine--immediately tying him to biting parody, satire, and occaionally childishness. To be perectly honest, about all I know from Mad is an old Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions collection my dad used to have.

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Book!
Movie!

Thursday, September 6, 2012

For the record

If I don't say anything about an artist's work, then that's really because I neither like or dislike anything about it, leaving me without anything to comment on.

Week 2: EC Segar

Segar is a cartoonist, creator of Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers, Barry the Boob, Looping the Loop, Thimble Theatre, and The Five-Fifteen (which later became Sappo. Apparently, he liked alliterative titles. He's also the creator of Popeye, so odds are that's all anyone would know or remember about him.


OK, that's pretty cool.



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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Popeye kinda stole the spotlight of Thimble Theater.

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Week 2: Charles Schultz

Here's someone that needs no introduction. No, really, what needs to be said? He's the guy that made Peanuts, which petty much says it all, methinks. Also, the nickname "Sparky" is hilarious.

Personally, I think I like the way he drew the characters in the ealier years of the strip--they seem much more smooth and expressive.









Week 2 Maurice Sendak

All I really know about this guy is Where the Wild Things Are, but he did quite a bit of other illustations and written works. He also died in May this year, so that's kinda sad, I guess.

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Week 2: Marjane Satrapi

No wonder she's got such a weird-name--she's French but bon in Iran. Apparently she does gaphic novels, illustrations, children's books, and directs animated movies. That doesn't really explain what she does to have photos of her show up more often than any of her work on Google, unless she does tons of interviews or something. But I digress. Her most famous works are the autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2. The only images by her I can find are either from those two works or are about them.