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Rex Babin doing animated editorial cartoons
Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin has been doing animated editorial cartoons for his paper’s web site for about a year now, but as the public editor admits, “the paper has done a poor job of telling readers the animated cartoons even exist, let alone guiding them to the animations.” In all there are 10 animations that he’s produced. The paper has posted his animations on his web site with his other cartoons and he has a handy URL: sacbee.com/babin
As to why Rex started to move toward animation:
Babin noticed while on his regular visits to high schools that students would get excited when he showed them his animated cartoons.
“Young people have iPhones and all these gadgets … and an animated cartoon is a perfect image for those devices. I’m using a different tool to present the same message (as in print). If people, especially young people, are getting this message via their (digital devices), then why not do it that way?
“Why print only static images, when now you can interact with (people), talk to them.”
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