A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising. Throughout the 20th century, cartoons were widely published in print media of various kinds, featured in magazines such as The New Yorker and Punch and distributed to newspapers through such organization as King Features Syndicate. Today, both original and vintage cartoons can be found online.
Cartoonists may work in many different formats: animation, booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, single-panel gag cartoons or video game packaging. A cartoonist traditionally developed rough sketches into finished pencil drawings and then, for reproduction purposes, completed the artwork in black India ink, using either a brush or a metal-nibbed pen. Traditionally, cartoonists often used a Winsor & Newton #3, Series 7 brush in combination with a crowquill pen. Today, many cartoonists work with Micron pens, which are made in six different sizes, from .20 mm to .50 mm.
Ted Rall (born August 26, 1963) is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009.
Rall draws three editorial cartoons a week for syndication, draws illustrations on a freelance basis, writes a weekly syndicated column, and edits the Attitude series of alternative cartooning anthologies and spin-off collections by up-and-coming cartoonists. He is an award-winning graphic novelist and the author of non-fiction books about domestic and international current affairs. He also travels to and writes about Central Asia, a region he believes to be pivotal to U.S. foreign policy concerns. In November 2001 he went to Afghanistan as a war correspondent for The Village Voice and KFI Radio in Los Angeles. He returned to Afghanistan in August 2010, traveling independently and unembedded throughout the country, filing daily "cartoon blogs" by satellite for The Los Angeles Times.
Ur a Cartoonist - Rucka Rucka Ali
"Ur a Cartoonist" ~ Rucka Rucka Ali
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Plot
Josh Baker meets a very special woman, Cheryl, in the streets of New York. Suddenly she collapses, and she's picked up by an ambulance. When Josh wants to visit her in the hospital, it appears that she hasn't been admitted in the hospital. Josh follows the roommate of Cheryl, and she disappears after a ride in the same ambulance. It's up to Josh to solve the secret behind this strange vehicle.
Keywords: ambulance, artist, comic-book-artist, cult-director, cult-film, hospital, independent-film, manhattan-new-york-city, medical, missing-person
You'll be in perfect health before you die.
The Doctor: Yes, I will eventually kill you, but I assure you you'll be in perfect health when you die.
Elias Zacharai: How many patients have you killed today, Nurse Feinstein?
Cheryl: They were going to sell me like an animal!
Plot
In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has written a comic book called "Space Avenger," which they believe is about them. They go to New York to try to kill the artist.
Keywords: 1930s, alien, camp, comic-book, dying-during-sex, independent-film, nudity, sci-fi-spoof, spontaneous-combustion
They can run, they can hide, they can kill, but will they die?
Plot
Casper the Friendly Ghost attends a premiere of one of his own cartoons and is interviewed in the lobby. He is asked how he happened to become a movie star, and gives a lively account of his Hollywood venture. The telephone operators, who have never seen a ghost before, flee in panic, and so do the script writers, animators and color artists.
Keywords: 1950s, actor, breaking-the-fourth-wall, broadcast, cartoon-color-artist, cartoonist, casper, fear, ghost, guest-of-honor
Plot
When the cartoonist takes a coffee break and leaves the office for a spell, Katnip and "Hoiman" break the 4th-dimesion wall (and several dozen real walls)with their escapades and conflicts and ideas exchanges. Katnip, per usual, gets the short end as Herman leaves him stuck in the ink bottle.
Keywords: 1950s, breaking-the-fourth-wall, cartoon-cat, cartoon-mouse, cartoonist, cat, cat-versus-mouse, character-name-in-title, chase, drawing-board
Plot
A man with a huge hooked nose enters the Fleischer studios to have his bust sculpted. Meanwhile, across the studio, Max is animating Koko. When he's called over to consult on the too-accurate bust, Koko gets mischievous and creates his own drawings. He then escapes and crawls inside the clay bust, eventually wriggling off like an inchworm. He gets into a fight with the man being modeled, both of them flinging wads of clay.
Keywords: bust, cabin, cartoon-bear, cartoon-cow, cartoonist, clay-animation, clown, drawing-comes-to-life, falling-through-ice, figure-skating
Clown: Why don'tcha use fresh ink when you draw me? I've got no more pep than a snail under ether.
Plot
An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word. The first word he writes is coon, which he transforms into a sketch of a black man. The next word he writes is Cohen, which he transforms into a sketch of a Jewish looking man. He is then visited on set by another man, who makes a smudge on the drawing surface. The illustrator turns that smudge into a sketch of that visiting man. And finally, he draws a drinking glass, a bottle of milk and a bottle of seltzer which take on lives of their own.
Keywords: drawing-comes-to-life, racial-caricature
Plot
Considered the first truly animated movie (or at least the first verifiable, surviving animation), this film is based on the lightning-sketch, a popular vaudeville act. The artist (Blackton) draws a series of faces on a blackboard, which then seem to take on a life of their own.
Keywords: animation-filmmaking, chalk-drawing-comes-to-life, face, part-stop-motion-animation, picture-comes-to-life, reverse-footage
Ur a Cartoonist - Rucka Rucka Ali
"Ur a Cartoonist" ~ Rucka Rucka Ali
Cartoonist and Illustrator Dan Wright
Inside a cartoonist's world - Liza Donnelly
Cartoonist Matt's typical day
Cannes Short Film Corner - Cartoonist
Cartooning Techniques : How To Become a Cartoonist
Cartooning Lesson 1: Introduction to Simple Shapes
Drawing Lessons : How to Become a Cartoonist
"Cartoonist Lives Matter": Art Spiegelman Responds to Charlie Hebdo Attack, Power of Cartoons
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LA Times Shreds Own Ethics Rules to Fire Editorial Cartoonist Ted Rall For Criticizing the Police
American cartoonist: The pen is mightier than the sword
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis sketching live at The Post