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Hey everyone 👋
I know I haven’t posted here in a veeeerry long time (sorry), but to keep the long story short, life has kept me both busy and distracted (a combination I wouldn’t recommend!).
I wanted to be vulnerable and share my cartoon and illustration instagram account with you all (posting something like this is a bit scary if you’re introvert like me…) but life is about being bold and not taking yourself too seriously.
So be sure to check out my instagram account @snailinklibrary to see what I’m all about!
It’s basically a curated journal of my journey to become a full-time freelance cartoonist & illustrator!
Wish my luck!!!
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- "There is absolutely no single aspect of one’s personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics."
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Playdate (front cover for The New Yorker)
Chris Ware
2015Chris Ware is a cartoonist, writer and frequent cover artist of The New Yorker. His most recent comic book is “Rusty Brown”.
To find out more about his inspiration behind this cover, be sure to check out his cover story article here-
Page from Weirdo magazine
Robert Crumb
1993Social outcasts are a mainstay for many of Robert Crumb’s cartoons. In this drawing, a crazed beggar directly addresses the viewer, praising comics as a “one of the most significant cultural artefacts of this era”. Could this be a thinly veiled disguise of Crumb’s personal views on the comic book medium? Or perhaps a tongue-in-cheek satire on the comic book nerd stereotype?
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Christmas Shopping/ Sale in Progress
H.M Bateman
About early 1930sThe saying ‘shop till you drop’ takes on a visual identity with H.M Batman’s watercolour cartoon. This cluttered scene of fanatic shoppers scrambling to literally find their feet, captures the hectic shopping spirit induced by flash sales or panic buying. Just remember folks, always keep your receipt!
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Fantagraphics recently announced a new book Daniel Clowes: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition (cover shown is not the final cover), with an October 2019 release date. The Fantagraphics website offers this description:
Daniel Clowes: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition turns the spotlight on one of the medium’s most dynamic creators. This edition draws from Clowes’s nearly 35 years of comics art, ranging from some of his earliest published work, 1986’s Lloyd Llewelyn, to his seminal one-man anthology, Eightball (in which Ghost World was originally serialized), and includes samples from his most recent graphic novel, 2016’s best-selling time travel thriller, Patience.
The edition features over 120 pages of art, each reproduced as exact facsimiles of the original to best showcase every detail of the artist’s cartooning process. Carefully curated by the artist himself, many of these pages have hung in museums around the country, and now you can enjoy them in your own library.
Get excited everyone…Daniel Clowes is launching a new book! Release date: Oct 2019
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Poster by Daniel Clowes for David Boring. Posted before but at a much smaller size. Via:
Yet another beautiful art piece by Daniel Clowes. The slick black and white make-believe world of David Boring resembles film noir sets of the 1940s.
Fun fact: the two brands of beers in the book “Blight Ale” and “Elba Light” are anagrams of Clowes’ iconic Eightball comic.
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Art Spiegelman, Breakdowns: From Maus to Now: An anthology of Strips by Art Spiegelman, cover detail, 1977, Ink on paper.
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Daniel Clowes, page from sketch book, 1996
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- A big thanks!
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- Hello virtual world! I wanted to give a big thanks to everyone who follows this Tumblr! 'Ode to Crumb' has little over a 1000 followers, which may not be a lot for some, but for me, it's very exciting. I adore cartoons, and will continue to post art by great cartoonists.
- If you know of any artists you'd like to see more work of, feel free to message me and I'll see what I can do.
- Thanks again.
- – Ode to Robert Crumb
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Robert Crumb, Life is Certainly “Existential”!, 1984
You can always rely on Crumb to ask the big questions in life, however don’t expect too many answers …
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Daniel Clowes, original art for Eightball T-shirt, 1994
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Seth, short artist biography and self-portrait, printed in Vernacular Drawings: Sketchbooks of the Cartoonist “Seth”, consolidated & abridged. 2001
A wonderfully apt description of Seth paired with an eloquent caricature. Both text and image allude to Seth’s nostalgic sensibility.
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Seth, fictional superhero sketches, “The Adventurer” and “The Black Death”, both made in about 2000
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Harold Knerr, The Shenanigan Kids, original hand-coloured Sunday Page, 1919
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