tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post3260789036034636150..comments2024-01-08T08:57:17.157+00:00Comments on Rod McKie Illustrations and Cartoons: One of the World's Greatest Living ArtistsRod McKiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322224888246015883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-68704731791687363822009-07-08T18:45:35.090+00:002009-07-08T18:45:35.090+00:00Hirst is a BS artist like so many of today's c...Hirst is a BS artist like so many of today's contemporaries, the really true great living artists are far more interested in perfecting their craft than inflating their bank balances, they generally keep a much lower profile, just look on places like youtube you'll see artists far beyond the likes of Hirst or Emin, artists creating masterpieces in traditional mediums like oilsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-40137468795927860182009-07-08T18:44:44.599+00:002009-07-08T18:44:44.599+00:00Hirst is a BS artist like so many of today's c...Hirst is a BS artist like so many of today's contemporaries, the really true great living artists are far more interested in perfecting their craft than inflating their bank balances, they generally keep a much lower profile, just look on places like youtube you'll see artists far beyond the likes of Hirst or Emin, artists creating masterpieces in traditional mediums like oilsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-70341482630027306112008-09-18T13:54:00.000+00:002008-09-18T13:54:00.000+00:00right on !!right on !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-36379725123834133992008-09-18T02:07:00.000+00:002008-09-18T02:07:00.000+00:00Hi Margaret. Thanks for looking in. That's a gre...Hi Margaret. Thanks for looking in. <BR/><BR/>That's a great story. I think for a lot of us the work we see when we are forming our ideas, works like a cartoon correspondence course, so you were really studying the best there. It makes you kind of worry when today's youngsters see so very few cartoons, and only those tiny strips. <BR/><BR/>I'm glad you stuck by Gahan. One of my regrets is that I didn't get into his work sooner. A lot of the earliest cartoons I saw where held in the Fine Art Department's Reference Section at the Scottish Library at George IV Bridge in Edinburgh. You couldn't remove them so I had to go there often with my sketch pad to copy the techniques and although they didn't have Gahan's work they had Addams and Thurber. I think Wilson is one of the few who wouldn't be punching above his weight with them. I'm certain this<BR/>new collection will be placed there.<BR/><BR/>Of course in Japan he would be a venerable Mangaka. I wonder if we shouldn't have some sort of term for the venerated cartoonists?Rod McKiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15322224888246015883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-43583190743597904492008-09-17T15:37:00.000+00:002008-09-17T15:37:00.000+00:00Rod, I agree with you 100% about Freud, Crumb and ...Rod, I agree with you 100% about Freud, Crumb and my childhood God,Gahan Wilson! My dad subscribed to Playboy back in the old days and I was allowed to read whatever was in the house. That's when I discover the full page, color gems of Wilson.If anyone asked I would say, I'm just reading Playboy for the cartoons! And that was pretty much true. The first year I joined the NCS I nominated Gahan for the Reuben and I kept nominating him until he won. It felt so good!<BR/>MargaretAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-50493341508989901842008-09-16T23:59:00.000+00:002008-09-16T23:59:00.000+00:00I do not agree with your comments about Damian Hir...I do not agree with your comments about Damian Hirst but I agree with you about Robert Crumb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com