Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comics aren't just for the funny papers anymore. Although profound and absurdist cartoons are as old as Thomas Nast's Tamnammy Hall caricatures and the 1920's "Krazy Kat," the cartoonist's art exploded into a vast panopoly of styles in the 1980s. The New Comics Anthology, edited by Bob Callahan, provides the neophyte comics reader with a diverse representation of the most skilled cartoonists of the post-modern...
...still chastised in the press for another project -- a series of silly , books, done with a cartoonist, called Wicked Willie. Willie is an erect penis. Until the publication in Britain of Toujours Provence, the author had pretty much slipped under the critical net and tended to think of reviewers as tolerant folk like himself. But second time around, his detractors were ready. The Spectator magazine published not one but two critiques upbraiding Mayle for barging into print after only three or four years in the area, using occasional French phrases and being arch. One account even disparages Provencal cooking ("never...
This difference is directness, the one-to-one correspondence between simultaneously seeing an image, processing that visual information and grasping a complex message. This is the cartoonist's privilege alone...
...CARTOONIST, like a child, understands an issue by simplifying it. To provide meaning from a baffling chaos, he or she must distill a subject to its most basic elements. The cartoon must aim to present a simple truth otherwise left unknown, overlooked, or misunderstood...
...like all other facets of reporting and fact-gathering in a newspaper, a cartoon must be brand new--new not only in subject matter, but also in visual presentation. Ideas fall flat unless they are carried by dynamic figures, vibrant strokes and striking satire. Much like a photographer, a cartoonist selectively crops the action. The frame should include only what is absolutely necessary...