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A collection of comic strip and cartoon adjacent news items.
John Wagner, A Life in Comics
John Wagner is the creator of the infamous British comic character Judge Dredd and wrote the eponymously named comic strip for The Daily MAil from 1981-1998. According to John Freeman:
the strip originally appeared in the form of a single self contained half-page story in the newspaper’s Saturday edition, written by John Wagner and Alan Grant and drawn by Ron Smith.
Noted here because comics writer John Wagner now has a website that will feature his autobiography:
… so John’s memoir – A Life in Comics – will feature here, exclusively on this website, in regular installments, perhaps building to a full size tome should he ever get round to finishing it.
The creation of Judge Dredd and the comic strip occurred in the first third of John’s long comics career.
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Rudy Giuliani: ‘You made me look like my dog!’
Recently in court again for a contempt hearing Rudy Giuliani made known his displeasure with courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg known. From the Reuters report:
During a break in the hearing, Giuliani asked courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg whether she would make him look “nice,” said Rosenberg, who was documenting the hearing for Reuters. He criticized a drawing Rosenberg made of him in a prior proceeding by scrunching his face into a scowl.
“You made me look like my dog,” Giuliani said, according to Rosenberg.
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Scott Nelson’s life as a cartoonist, illustrator and instructor
In 1988, at 19, Nelson launched his career in an office in downtown Worcester, and cites among his most memorable work drawing for professional sports teams such as the Boston Bruins and Celtics.
Nelson also carried that lesson as an arts instructor, with a teaching resume that includes cartooning classes for children, Worcester Arts Museum and his own online classes. Nelson’s business, Scott Nelson and Son.
New ventures include the Two Bridges Art Academy, cofounded with Lisa Pueschel, which evolved from Nelson’s first experiences of teaching classes online.
Worcester Magazine interviews local artist and teacher Scott Nelson.
As a working artist, try to do a little bit of everything. Do illustrations, do cartooning, anything anybody asked me, take the assignment, and work it out.
Monday might be a caricature of a person graduating from college, Tuesday might be for local radio stations, Thursday, the Telegram & Gazette, and something for the sports page … when I say, “cartoonist,” I did a lot of caricatures. I would do illustrations that would be in a magazine, that would be used on T-shirts…
When it comes to cartooning, I have the impression that there is a perception that it isn’t that hard, or isn’t as hard as other art forms.
That is a great observation, because you are 100% true. Often, a person thinks a cartoonist doesn’t need to have arts skills … but a person has to know how to illustrate everything. If your character is on a sidewalk, what is around them? A fire hydrant, a street sign? You have to understand the geometries of how things work. Those are the fundamentals I have to teach.
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