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What You Don't Know About Turning 60: A Funny Birthday Quiz
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Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons
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What You Don't Know About Turning 50: A Funny Birthday Quiz
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Funny Stuff, which I cowrote with Rex Hesner, is an analysis and appreciation of single-panel gag cartoons--the type you see in The New Yorker. In fact, Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of that magazine for 20 years, wrote the foreword. The book consi ...more "
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I also loved Gary Larson--still do. He challenged the syndicated cartoon establishment by bringing an absurd element to what was once called the funny
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Please always credit the cartoonist. Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, created this cartoon. ...more " |
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| A cute paperback book with true, amusing tales of events that turn out badly. The stories are more like anecdotes, so you can skip ahead if you want. Disclaimer: the book includes one of my cartoons. | |
“I feel that the cartoon should involve something happening that could not possibly happen, but which has a kind of truth to it. There should be a give-and-take between the truth and the implausibility. If those two things are going on at the exact same time, and they’re both equal in weight, then the brain has a conflict that it has to resolve, and it can only resolve it through laughter.”
― Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons
― Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons
“Just as music courses enhance our appreciation by dissecting melody, rhythm, and harmony, Funny Stuff accomplishes a similar feat for gag cartoons.”
― Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons
― Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons
“I dream [a cartoon] into being by imagining how I want it to be. I lead with my imagination and, inevitably, the brush follows.”
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“It is nice to get your cartoons accepted, but if you can get past that and just draw for yourself and just try not to give a s***, which I know sounds arrogant, but that's how you have to be.”
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“[Sam Gross] had some very interesting words of wisdom, one of which was 'Just remember, any minute it can all turn to s***.' That is sort of my general mindset, that all sorts of different anvils can fall out of the sky at any time.”
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“I saw that my drawings had to be of a simplicity that would match the idiocy I was seeking.”
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Cartoons
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Let's discuss the world of single-panel cartoons, such as those found in the New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Why are they ...more
The Humour Club
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A group for readers and writers of humorous fiction.
