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It’s Free Comic Book Day, A History of American Comics in 6 Panels, Tex Avery creates Bugs Bunny, Colleen Doran has advice for youngsters entering the cartooning world, and Michael Cavna talks to cartoonists about Pope Francis obituary cartoons.
A quick reminder that it is Free Comic book Day. Visit your Local Comic Book Shop.
Here’s Matt Madden’s A History of American Comics in Six Panels from 2012.
In the 1940 Technicolor joint A Wild Hare, hapless hunter Elmer Fudd goes on the prowl for rabbits but unfortunately sets his sights on Bugs Bunny, who’s an agent of chaos rather than easy prey.
Avery really let loose on Hare, making Bugs a wisecracking, carrot-chomping merry prankster who’s more amused by this shotgun-wielding dolt than scared. Avery was also responsible for his beloved catchphrase, “What’s up, Doc?” a greeting he said was very common back in Texas.
On the 85th anniversary (July 27, 1940) of Bugs Bunny’s first appearance Craig Lindsey for The Houston Chronicle takes a look at Texan animator Tex Avery and his brief stay at the Warner Bros. studio.
Frankly, I have better things to do than fight with people online, but let me just say that I acknowledge that many (and, in fact, most) people in comics have trouble making a living. Not just because comics is comics (financial instability is the norm for the arts, period,), but because the entire business paradigm of the industry has been going through major shifts for over twenty years, and the arts are being gutted from corporate on down.
Cartoonist Colleen Doran writes about newbie expectations on entering the comics world.
The real issue is, young creators break in, they see the famous creators getting big money for their art and commissions, and they see the museums, the long line at conventions, the appearance of wealth and fame, and they think that they get into comics and that’s going to happen for them, too.
And it might.
But more likely it won’t.
pon the death of Pope Francis on the day after Easter, editorial artists began drawing tributes to the spiritual leader of many firsts: the first Latino pope, the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Western Hemisphere. And many artists decided to memorialize the fact that, indeed, he did not forget the poor, as he championed the marginalized throughout his 12-year papacy, heralded as “the people’s pope.”
Michael Cavna for the National Catholic Reporter rounds up some editorial cartoons on the passing of Pope Francis and talks to the cartoonists about their cartoons: Pedro X. Molina, Marshall Ramsey, Clay Bennett, Scott Stantis, Steve Breen, Lalo Alcaraz, and Jeffrey Koterba.
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