Writers & Illustrators wanted to contribute to the Cartoon Club Art/Literary magazine

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  WRITERS and ILLUSTRATORS!

   The NWFLAA  invites you to come join us at the next meeting of the Cartoon Club on Tuesday evening (from 6-8pm) January 3rd.
This New Year we are embarking on a new direction, to publish, and hopefully, to print a Black and White Art/Literature magazine, in the vein on “Mineshaft” (Google it).
We will charge a cover price in order to pay for the cost of printing. We should be able to sell enough to our friends and family to print up enough to get us started. Distribution will be something we will work out collectively and individually.
The Cartoon Club is free to all NWFLAA members.(* We have our own t-shirts and mugs even! (You buy those)). Cartoonists and illustrators will collaborate with writers on stories (i.e., graphic sort stories, or whatever, your ideas are your own) or you can submit individual works of your own creation. I don’t care what your subject is as long as it’s not too offensive. You will retain ownership of the individual rights to your own work.
No themes, no continuity restraints, no pressure, just a collection of creative works by artists who are driven to create! I’m JAZZED, and I just want to create art and literature in a magazine form.
So if you paint pictures with words or you use pen and ink, like I do. Come join in!!  $25 a year membership in the NWFLAA buys you a seat in the Cartoon Clubhouse. (…Art Lair every other Tuesday evening 6-8 pm).
“Black&White&Readallover!”
WE CAN DO THIS!,…the more artists involved, the better. and the more we produce, the more times we can publish. See you on Jan 3rd at 6pm.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!_Lou

 

Interviewed: AVClub talks to legendary Jack Davis

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      Here is one of my very few Heroes! This is the man who influenced my cartooning the most in my life. He stands tall as one of the Great Artists of EC Comics, MAD Comics, MAD Magazine, and beyond. Fortunately, he is still with us today. Long Live Jack Davis!

     The AV Club has posted an extenstive interview with the legendary Jack Davis.

AVC: What artists were important to you growing up?

JD: Growing up, of course, Walt Disney. Donald Duck—the big feet—and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. And Harold Foster, who drew Prince Valiant, and he also drew Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ bit. And Alex Raymond, who drew Flash Gordon and drew Secret Agent X-9 and Jungle Jim all at the same time. How he did that, I don’t know. I used to get, when I was small, about 12 years old, the Sunday paper. And the page was full of nothing but artwork. George McManus was on the front page, Maggie and Jiggs [of Bringing Up Father]. Beautiful stuff. Very tight, very funny, very illustrated. And then you’d turn the page, and there would be Alex Raymond, the top would be Jungle Jim, and then it would be Flash Gordon. And the third page, again, was Harold Foster, with all of the knights and everything. When I was, I guess, about 12 or 15 years old, I wrote Harold Foster a fan letter—they knocked me out, his Sunday pages—and he sent me a Sunday page of Prince Valiant making a saddle for a horse, and the bridle. From that day on, the horses that I drew, the cowboys and stuff like that, had to come from Harold Foster. And also a big impression was Fred Harman, who drew Red Ryder. He drew great guns and holsters that really had a hard grip on it. So, that’s about it

 

 More links to Jack Davis Art:

http://www.americanartarchives.com/davis,jack.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpWLyVNOtSg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSDsRg4QkGs

 

 

 

Who is Thomas Nast?

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Thomas Nast (09/27/1840-12/07/1902) is known as the “Father of the American Cartoon.”  He is responsible for the first depiction of the modern version of Santa Claus.
The Republican Party elephant and the Democratic Party donkey were also his creations.  Primarily a political cartoonist, he was a factor in the political downfall of “Boss” Tweed in the late 1870′s.

Cartoon Club Meeting Oct. 11th at 6pm

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Hi Gang,
Club Meeting tomorrow evening. Hope to see you all there, bright eyed and bushy tailed, or at least there!

There are several good drawing and anatomy books now in our NWFLAA  library that you should find helpful. Bring your thumb drives with if you want to scan any of the information in them as they must stay in the Art Lair to be available to all. I  had trouble with my latest drawing until I did some research in my Drawing/Anatomy books.

Here are some very good drawing tips on shading forms for you. They may seem rudimentary and too simplistic, at first glance. But that’s usually not a bad place to start in many cases.

See you tomorrow, Lou.

Next Cartoon Club Meeting Tuesday the 27th from 6 till 8.

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Hi Gang,

The next Cartoon Club Meeting will be on Tuesday the 27th from 6 till 8. We will continue on with or Group Jam project “in-progress”. Those who haven’t inserted themselves into the drawing will get their chance.  Those who already have done so will get an opportunity to add toning and texture. Study up on your Guptill toning techniques (handouts) and search through your “influences” for ideas.

Tones are really just patterns, so you will also be able to experiment and create toning techniques of your own invention. Some may work and some may not, so test them on the side before you jump into your final inked project.

See ya Tuesday.

Cheers, Lou