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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: animation, cartooning, comic books, comic strips, and single panel gags.
Where the Magic Happens
Cartoonist Kyle Bravo gives a tour of his studio where not all of the magic happens. As Kyle says:
“To be honest, probably about 95% of my drawing doesn’t actually happen in my studio. I almost exclusively work digitally on an iPad, and I bring it pretty much anywhere and everywhere I go. I draw on the couch, and in my bed, and I draw out and about in multiple places throughout the course of my day, but, on the occasions when I do sit in the studio to draw…”
Wortman’s Works
“In 1941, the syndicated cartoonist Denys Wortman [1887-1958] moved to the Vineyard with his wife, Hilda, and 3-year-old son, also named Denys. At the time, Wortman’s strip was published every day, except for Sundays, in newspapers around the country.”
Kate Feifffer for MV Times interviews Wortman the Younger in “Denys Wortman on Denys Wortman.”
“The Two Worlds of Denys Wortman,” is on display at the M.V. Museum until Feb. 21, 2027. More Wortman.
The Aging Comics
Josh Davidson at Game Rant lists “8 Best Comic Strips Where Characters Age in Real Time.”
“Comic strips and cartoons are often known to freeze their characters in time. The writers want to tell stories about a particular age or moment in a character’s life, and having characters get older can complicate the chemistry of a comic or cartoon. It is an interesting dilemma, as audiences often want to watch their favorite characters mature and get older. However, viewers also notoriously complain if something changes in their favorite media.
“There are some comic strips that broke the mold when it comes to this particular trend. A handful actually depicted their characters aging in ‘real time.'”
You would think a list of the “best” would certainly include Terry and The Pirates, neither is Funky Winkerbean. Though Baby Blues and Peanuts are numbered among comic strips with aging characters.
Ice Ages Have Come and Gone
Cartoonist Gianluca Costantini at ChannelDraw makes us aware of the Cartoonists Against Ice comic book.
“As immigration agents carried out raids across Minnesota, residents organized protests, documented arrests, and mobilized networks of solidarity. Journalists followed events on the streets, while artists began searching for another way to record what was happening.
“Among them were three Minneapolis-based cartoonists, K. Woodman-Maynard, Jason Walz, and Trung Le Nguyen, who launched an artistic initiative called Cartoonists Against ICE. Their idea was to invite cartoonists to document the human consequences of the operations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal immigration authorities.
“What began as an online call for solidarity grew into an international artistic response…”
25 contributors, 50 pages, all profits to be donated to the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee.
Monetizing the Art of the AI Steal
Jamie Lang at Cartoon Brew reports on an AI “artist” ripping off a real award-winning animator.
“Over the weekend, a relatively obscure Instagram account went viral with an AI-generated knockoff of El Empleo, the acclaimed 2008 Argentine animated short that has accumulated millions of views and several top international festival awards over nearly two decades.”
Bad enough stealing the ideas and staging of the cartoon, but…
“Its caption instructed viewers to ‘Send AI to find out how I made this film.’ Following those instructions triggered an automated private message directing viewers to AI Film School, a service advertising AI filmmaking instruction for $49 per month.”
“‘So these people were not only infringing the film’s copyright, but also using it to make their AI business go viral and generate revenue,’ [co-creator Patricio Plaza] Plaza told us. ‘I can’t even begin to list all the things that are wrong with this.'”
Lang notes:
“There’s a bitter irony in the choice of source material for the AI knockoff. El Empleo depicts a world in which human beings are reduced to tools, their labor and bodies exploited for the benefit of others.”
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