My Cat-Style Cartooning Technique is Unstoppable

If I ever get around to writing a how-to cartooning book (something I have actually considered), one technique I’m going to champion is learning how to pencil and ink with a real, live–and often moving–cat on one’s drafting table.  My thinking is that this is kind of like those “heavy hands” things that some folks go running with: if you can pencil and ink with a cat moving around on your work surface, then you should be really good at it when there’s not a cat moving around on your work surface, right?  I recently drew and inked–and inked with a brush pen, in fact–a drawing while I was in a moving bus going up a mountain in a rain storm.  I credit this cat-style cartooning technique.

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People who are stealing my bit – Part II

Saw this ad for Fantagraphics in the current Comics Journal a few weeks ago:

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Photoshopped this up a few months back to promote Midnight Sun:

People who are stealing my bit – Part I

Saw this today (from a comic book called Nextwave: Agents of HATE #11 apparently):

Drew this years ago:

NRA’s Graphic Novel

NRA’s Secret Graphic Novel Revealed! – Wonkette

The artwork in this forthcoming “graphic novel” (that’s really just an illustrated pamphlet as far as I can tell) by the National Rifle Association looks better than 99% of the books that won Ignatz awards at last year’s SPX.

The lambasting the book gets from Wonkette (linked above) is funny in and of itself, but also unintentionally so, since it’s about as reactionary as the material it’s mocking. See, the joke is that the pamphlet’s “racist,” cause…you know, everyone who’s in favor of legal ownership of handguns is racist, right?  Get it?

Here, for example, is one of the biggest threats to the white suburban hunter: dirty hippies and their evil sidekicks: the dynamite-carrying owl, sinister pig, angry Wall Street bull, dire wolf, terror chicken and Land Lobster

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