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Re: Your favourite cartoonists

Postby AhabsOtherLeg » Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:22 pm

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Is that by John Campbell?

I like this other one of his:

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It's one of those things that couldn't really exist except in comic form - how else could you convey the slow move from representational art made for the glory of god or nature to the super-evolved, post-modern, self-concious, artist-centric mode of nowadays in two frames? And it's funny too. Got to give it to comics and cartoons, in that respect at least - they can get a pretty complex point across almost immediately in a way that no other medium (not even painting) can.

Sorry I chose just about the worst of Gerald Scarfe's cartoons to post. I was trying to find some of his great ones of Nixon
and Thatcher, but it seems the ones I've got in my memory might not exist in real life.

JackRiddler wrote:.
Now. It's pointless to debate whether Frank Miller is good...

I can be so far above it now, but this!


Fair enough. It's true that it took a combination of 9/11 and fame in the film business to turn him full psycho, and smarter guys than him have been psychologically ruined by just one of those factors on their own, nevermind both in quick succession. I still can't cut him any slack on the fascism, since it directly and negatively effects his work, but the insanity and hubris is pretty forgiveable under the circumstances. I suppose the main thing is that the man can draw good cartoons ...most of the time. He can definitely draw shit ones too, though, and I don't just mean the message behind them or the dialogue.

Very much liking this one, 'fraid I don't know who drew it:

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Speaking of fascist comic book heros, this one's great as well:

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And for anti-fascist, if not alwats admirable, comic book heroes there's Jesse Custer from the Preacher series, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon:

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Lovely stuff.

Come to think of it, comics are pretty great, aren't they?
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Re: Your favourite cartoonists

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Postby annie aronburg » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:29 pm

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"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
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