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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.
Actors: Richard Bright (actor), James Earl Jones (actor), Larry Cohen (director), Stan Lee (actor), Pepe Serna (miscellaneous crew), Tony Pope (miscellaneous crew), Eric Roberts (actor), Red Buttons (actor), Larry Cohen (writer), Nick Chinlund (actor), Eric Braeden (actor), Janine Turner (actress), Luisa Leschin (miscellaneous crew), Bert Rosario (miscellaneous crew), Wren T. Brown (miscellaneous crew),
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-personActors: Elisa Gabrielli (actress), Richard Fiocca (composer), Jamie Gillis (actor), Richard W. Haines (producer), Richard W. Haines (editor), Dayton Callie (actor), Richard W. Haines (writer), Dayton Callie (miscellaneous crew), Richard W. Haines (director), Betty Chin (miscellaneous crew), Robert Cicchini (actor), Angela Nicholas (actress), Jerry Lambert (actor), Frank Santopadre (actor), James Giordano (actor),
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-combustionActors: Wim Wenders (actor), William Forsythe (actor), Stephen Frears (actor), John Boorman (actor), Susannah York (actress), Alan Bennett (actor), Manuel Gélin (miscellaneous crew), Sanford Lieberson (actor), Maurice Bulbulian (actor), Charles Gormley (actor), Toby Reisz (miscellaneous crew), Howard Sharp (editor), Suzanne Danielle (actress), Maurice Hatton (producer), Maurice Hatton (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jackson Beck (actor), Jackson Beck (actor), Jackson Beck (actor), Jack Mercer (actor), Jack Mercer (actor), Mae Questel (actress), Mae Questel (actress), Cecil Roy (actress), Seymour Kneitel (producer), Izzy Sparber (producer), Isadore Klein (writer), Winston Sharples (composer), Izzy Sparber (director),
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-honorActors: Jackson Beck (actor), Jack Mercer (actor), Sid Raymond (actor), Arnold Stang (actor), Seymour Kneitel (producer), Izzy Sparber (producer), Isadore Klein (writer), Winston Sharples (composer), Izzy Sparber (director),
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-boardActors: Robin Chandler (actress), Bob Dunn (actor), Kermit Schafer (producer), Bill Warwick (director),
Genres: Game-Show,Actors: Oscar Brand (actor), Patricia Bright (actress), Mel Casson (actor), Walter Hurley (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Game-Show,Actors: Max Fleischer (actor), Max Fleischer (producer), Dave Fleischer (director),
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-skatingActors: J. Stuart Blackton (actor), J. Stuart Blackton (producer), J. Stuart Blackton (director),
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-caricatureActors: J. Stuart Blackton (actor), J. Stuart Blackton (producer), J. Stuart Blackton (director),
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