Word: cartoonist
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Growing up in a small town in New York's Catskill Mountains, Adams wanted to be a cartoonist at age 6. He started drawing satirical pictures of classmates and teachers but never considered it more than a hobby. "My grades were good, and it didn't look like cartooning was a high-percentage play," he says. He went on to get a bachelor's degree in economics from nearby Hartwick College and headed to San Francisco. "My first job was as a bank teller. I got robbed twice at gunpoint. But it was worth it," he says with amusement, "because...
...Written with a mix of phonetic Hokkien dialect and English, Shiga creates a fascinating and little-seen world. In both content and artwork Shiga emulates the style of Lat, a cartoonist with a Charles Shultz-level reputation in South East Asia. Having only started cartooning in 1995, Shiga has an extremely simple, cute and doodley drawing style. But watch out. With the kind of reversal that you later appreciate as a Shiga trademark, two thirds of the way through "Double Happiness" Tom takes an absurdly cruel beating at the hands of some thugs who seem to think he knows something...
David Rees is a tough artist to crack. Last Friday night at a reading sponsored by the Harvard Advocate he refused to be pigeonholed as a “political” cartoonist. But his newest series of cartoons transcends the conventional cynicism of Doonesbury or even those Boondocks kids to tap into a real, terrified American consciousness. Over the past year, in a country newly raw to terrorism and wartime brutality, the Get Your War On web-links hopped from cubicle to office to dormitory. Now Rees has a publisher, Soft Skull Press (run by Richard Nash...
...straight play cannot do.” Emily J. Carmichael ’04, first-time author of the touching three-part short play The Impossibles, writes in an e-mail that she too is interested in being a writer, but “also [a] painter, animator, cartoonist and rouge space pilot...
...This third installment examines Barry's "One Hundred Demons" (Sasquatch Books; 224pp HC; $24.95), the first work of (nearly) non-fiction by the veteran alternative weekly cartoonist. Whatever she wants to call it, Barry's book creates a poignant mix of what makes our lives both comical...