Saturday, June 30, 2007

Playboy Jitters

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It must be nerves. I have now inked 8 versions of a rough for Playboy. The Playboy Cartoon Department wants a minor change, but for some re...
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Woody Guthrie Cartoon Tribute

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Isn't this just a marvelous idea? The book, This Toon is Your Toon , is the brainchild of Stephanie Piro and John Nolan, and it really i...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Email Problems

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Just a quick note prior to the weekend's post. My fellow cartoonist Nik Scott tells me there is something amiss with my email so an alt...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The late, great, Bud Handelsman, and his excellent family

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Bud Handlesman's family dropped me an email, despite the fact that they were, and are, still grieving, to say thanks for mentioning Bud...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

RIPs All Round - Bud Handelsman and David Myers.

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I started drawing cartoons for Punch Magazine in the 1980s when I was about 20 years old. In that respect I am still moderately young, but o...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Working With Templates

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I've shelved some things to finish my weekly quota of cartoons (as I said, I'm drawing for only a few publications now), so I can no...
Monday, June 11, 2007

London 2012 and the Waffen SS logo

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What an absolute disgrace that piece of shit, clunky, SS-like, logo for London 2012 is. I mean, it fails on so many levels it is difficult t...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Can't Draw, Won't Draw

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I haven't exactly given up drawing gag cartoons, but I've phased it out for all but a very few markets, about 6 worldwide (I feel I ...
Monday, June 04, 2007

Trondtastic, Trondgasmic, Trondalicious...

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Lewis Trondheim.com Oh come on, I was a DJ for years, we murdered words all the time to appear cool. Anyway, those portmanteaux monstrositie...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Death Note 2, The Last Name, hard-subbed by Mishicorp/Sars

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Right, that reminds me that I should have started the IManga blog long before now and my Death Note review of the Manga , live-action movie...

Ranter Rod subdued by Serene Susan

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Well, the article below, which triggered my Guardian -inspired rage aimed at that paper's habit of running lofty a rticles on cartooni...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

The Guardian Online thinks cartoonists belong in their place

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I posted this reply on the Gruniads forum, but it may vanish, on account of it being too long, or something. Here's the article: Are Co...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The Pat Boyette

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Firstly, let me thank Steven and WD for swinging by and giving some valuable thoughts to the Ditko / Boyette . Of course a simple mistake w...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

What's in a name? Let your inner-Otaku speak.

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I have always been in awe of people who work, in any field, in anonimity. In the Art world it's pretty rare, unless of course it's a...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Free Gilbert and George Digital Print!

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You know, I've always loved Alan Yentob's interviewing technique. I think I first became aware of his work, consciously , when he i...
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Monday, April 30, 2007

Todd Goldman, Art Thief.

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You know, earlier this month we gave Todd (Cloneman) Goldman the benefit of the doubt when he at least partly 'manned-up' to pilferi...
Monday, April 16, 2007

On not being Angus McKie, Cam Kennedy, Eddie Campbell, Brian Bolland, Alan Grant, etc,etc.

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I don't know when it happened, but at some stage I gave up trying to draw the comics I enjoyed reading and went for the quick thrill of ...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Todd Goldman bites the bullet

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Well, at any rate he has fessed-up to purloining the Purple Pussy, to a point, but not to the other obvious rip-offs: :FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...

So it Goes...Tiddely Pom.

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Kurt Vonnegut , that often dark and heavily satirical veteran of the US counterculture, the brilliant author of Slaughterhouse-Five, died ye...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Why create, when others can do it for you?

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What's the difference between cartoonist David Kelly , and 'world-renowned artist' Todd Goldman' ? (Let me be honest, I'...