Word: cartoonists
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...small, excitable woman with large glasses, Chast is arguably the greatest living practitioner of a minor art, that of the magazine cartoon, and her work is now collected in a very large book titled Theories of Everything (Bloomsbury; 394 pages). Generally speaking, a cartoonist is somebody who draws little pictures that make people laugh. Chast's drawings do that, but they also do much more...
Chast, 51, wasn't supposed to be a cartoonist. When she was at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1970s, she wanted to be a painter. "Cartooning was not anything that was looked on very positively," she says. "You were trying to communicate with people, which was very tacky. Definitely a no-no." Fortunately, she wasn't very good at painting, so she turned her efforts elsewhere. Some artists take years to evolve their individual sensibility, but Chast was Chast from the very first cartoon she sold, which was titled "Little Things." It's the first cartoon...
...writer is an editorial cartoonist for the Brown Daily Herald...
...Yahtzee.” Surely you’ve heard the term by now—several cartoonists give birth to the same idea, usually all at once. Your cartoonist seems to have jumped on board a slow train to Yahtzee-ville with her depiction of Kim’s mushroom cloud hair...
...long as we’re tossing out trite clichés, remember this one: There’s nothing new under the sun. Neither this cartoon theme, nor this problem is original to your cartoonist...