Word: cartoonist
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...Bunny he's animated, angry and determinedly flatulent?and if you've got something against that, you're obviously not a teenage Chinese girl. Mashimaro is the hippest cartoon mascot in the world's largest market. (Do you hear that, Hello Kitty?) Created in 1999 by Korean cartoonist Kim Jae-In, Mashimaro's crudely funny animated adventures have been adopted by countless Chinese teens and loaded onto their websites. Like his cutesy Japanese predecessor's, Mashimaro merchandise is hot. For the new "pink-collar class"?trendy Chinese girls with a cell phone in one hand and a decaf skim latte...
...rimmed eyeglasses. Chris Ware, with a large Corrigan-esqe head, tries to bashfully shrink into his chair. Kidd, whose sweeping part of dark hair and wire-rim glasses give him the look of a teenage Devo fan, began by asking Art Spiegelman what it means to be a successful cartoonist. "It's a very mixed blessing," Spiegelman said. "I've felt this incredible weight ever since 'Maus' became a crossover hit because it puts all these eyeballs looking over you shoulders. ... The flip side of course is you have all these half-baked notions and somebody will...
Budnitz has always had a sharp wit. She drew cartoons for The Crimson and the Lampoon—“for a long time, I thought I wanted to be a political cartoonist,” she says—poking fun at everything from pompous professors to foul-tasting dining hall food. One 1993 drawing depicts a little girl sheepishly approaching a group of three schoolboys. “Can I play?” she asks. “Yes! No! Maybe!” they reply. “Come back next year...
...comix part of the book, "Cartoonists on Cartooning," includes contributions from a number of artists we hardly hear from anymore. Robert Crumb, for example, submits a simulacrum of himself as "Harold," an aging cartoonist with his mind more on prostate cancer than on making art. Justin Green, another underground original, makes a welcome appearance with his typically personal story that starts with a childhood correspondence course in cartooning and ends with accidentally drinking paint thinner. Other contributors include Chris Ware, Los Bros. Hernandez, Carol Lay, Dave Sim (with a refreshingly straight-forward appreciation of Alex Raymond), Jessica Abel and about...
...most part none of the articles require prior knowledge of comix past or present, though they may require some patience. Jim Woodring, author of the comicbook "Frank," writes a personal appreciation of the early gag cartoonist T. S. Sullivant who, "posed his characters in ways never seen before or since." Other historical essays include one about Bill Holman's "Smokey Stover" strip from the 1930s. Noticeably the generous examples of Holman's screwball "YOWSA!" of a strip tell you nearly as much as the essay's academic run-on. (Sample: "Holman's desultory recklessness as he periodically disassembled his characters...