your favourite cartoonists

[John the Monkey]

Kevin O'Neill - his work on Nemesis the Warlock in 2000ad was gloriously alien and barmy.

More recently, I think Mike Mignola's stylised figures, and heavy use of shadow and negative space are amazing.

 

[slowmotion]

This sent me googling for Sean Agnew, a name I'd not come across, hence to this, which got me laughing like a drain, despite the lack of any actual cartoons. Eg "Barry the Cat - a one-off parody of The Beano's acrobatic crimefighter Billy the Cat. Unlike his Beano equivalent, Barry is incompetent, hopelessly uncoordinated, and is immediately recognised despite his "cat-suit" disguise. The final panel shows him in hospital, suffering from multiple injuries, being told that he has acted "very foolishly".

The third entry under T on the Viz cartoon wiki entry was a fantastic episode of un-PC cartoon humour.

 

[slowmotion]

Flying Monkey. Isn't there a Herge picture of Tintin alone on a stormy sea, in the style of a Japanese picture? Big waves, and the crests quite well drawn? I'm curious.
Thanks.

 

[wakou]

For the geeks, XKCD has given a few smiles...
example:
http://xkcd.com/730/

 

[wakou]

It's gotta be Paul Sample and his best-loved character, Ogri:

Oh yes. I subscribed to Bike magazine for years, just for Ogri

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Thanks to you and Slomo. I read all the Tintin books when I was much younger but I didn't remember that. Quite lovely. Of course, Herge's style and the comic printing process lends itself quite nicely to reproducing the flat colours of Japanese ukiyo-e, which is also essentially cheap print for the masses.

 

[slowmotion]

Thanks Adrian. That's the one. It's available as a poster too. I saw a copy in a New Age shop near Tofino a few years ago. Crystals and whale music...the usual stuff...and in the rack of posters, there was TinTin.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Nobody mentioned Matt in the telegraph? Usually a great comment on the day's news.

http://telegraph.newsprints.co.uk/search/scu/p/u/181441/1/matt cartoons november 2011

 

[vernon]

Raymond Briggs -not strictly a cartoonist

 

[slowmotion]

Nobody mentioned Matt in the telegraph? Usually a great comment on the day's news.

http://telegraph.newsprints.co.uk/search/scu/p/u/181441/1/matt cartoons november 2011

He is just fantastic. Very few pen strokes and very few words, but always funny....often very, very funny. A brilliant observer of humanity and its foibles.

 

[dellzeqq]

Donald McGill?

 

[porteous]

Gahan Wilson

 

[porteous]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Donald McGill?

*cough* page 2

 

[John the Monkey]

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I like those, but am I alone in thinking the captions are unnecessary?