Stephen Kroninger has posted a very, very cool booklet from 1952, Frank Tashlin’s How To Create Cartoons. There’s some nice tips in there, an interesting approach to drawing, and an intriguing style. Very fun retro style art from when retro was modern.
The book is presented as a series of jpgs. I wanted to pull it onto my iPad to read, so I combined all the pictures into a single PDF. If you’d like, feel free to download it here.
Are you a cartoon fan? Animation fan? Soundtrack fan? Adventure fan? Fan of behind-the-scenes-stuff? You might wanna check this out. It’s a two-hour fan-made documentary of one of the best adventure cartoons ever made, Hanna-Barbera’s Jonny Quest.
Check out part one on YouTube (they have all the other parts also, save one that was pulled for copyright because it contained a clip from another company’s cartoons). If you like what you see, download the whole thing (including the missing clip) from the poster’s blog.
That blog links to another amazing clip that you have to see if you’re a Jonny Quest fan or are interested in stopmotion animation. Roger Evans spent an incredible amount of time remaking the famous Jonny Quest opening sequence in stopmotion, using models he created himself. See it here. I can’t imagine the amount of effort that went into this. He has a great behind-the-scenes page here, where you can see the original and new version of each scene, along with stills of the process of making that scene. Just incredible.
Bubbles as Darth Vader is pretty excellent, but when Pinky comes in as one of Vader’s soldiers, wow. Impressions of Shatner as C3P0 and CHRISTOPHER WALKEN as R2D2? Stimpy as Uncle Owen? Vincent Price as Princess Leia? Geezle pete, this is fun.
Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, and Kevin Conroy’s Batman as the narrator.
While reading about Spiro Agnew (for some odd reason), I discovered a term I was heretofore ignorant of: damnatio memoriae. Basically, it’s a Roman term referring to the judgment of something or somebody being wiped from history. Very intriguing!
Spiro Agnew’s official portrait was removed from the Maryland State House after his bribery scandal, only to be returned 16 years later by the governor, stating that it’s not up to anybody to erase history, citing the novel 1984 and its “He did not exist; he never existed” reference.
It’s certainly something I agree with; we have to record and remember everything that happens, even the negative.
May 24th, 2012
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Best Star Wars/US President mashup ever.
“Kenobi Crossing the Dune Sea” is a 0 BBY oil-on-canvas painting that commemorates General Obi-Wan Kenobi’s crossing of the Dune Sea before a pivotal movement that would lead to the Battle of Yavin.
This Arturo Bandini from Ask the Dust by John Fante. A character that defies you to like him.
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This is what I hope my drawings look like someday. Love those lines!
May 22nd, 2012
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A is for Amy from The Passage by Justin Cronin. Illustration by Becky Munich
I absolutely love the colours in this. Awesome.
May 22nd, 2012
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Here is my first entry for AlphaBooks, the weekly draw-a-character project my friend Andy is spearheading. I plan on doing all Tintin characters, A-Z. This is Aristides Silk, gentleman pickpocket. He appears in The Secret of The Unicorn.
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