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1. Comics Illustrator of the Week :: Ben Caldwell

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By: Andy Yates, on 7/9/2015
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Ben Caldwell dazzles us this week with his
eye-popping cover art for Catwoman’s
Teen Titans GO! variant. In addition to
comics, Caldwell has worked as a toy
designer, on various animation/video-
game projects, and childrens book
illustration. He also writes and draws a
popular series of “how to” books called
Action! Cartooning. It’s nice to see more
and more artists like Caldwell bringing
their “animation-style” to comics. It makes
perfect sense since there’s so much
crossover nowadays between comics &
the TV/movie industry.

Ben Caldwell is also known for The Dare

Detectives! series of graphic novels, The
Wizard of Oz All-Action Classics
adaptation, and Star Wars Clone War
Adventures comics.

Caldwell graduated from the Parsons

School of Design for Illustration and
currently lives in New York with his family.

You can see the latest sketches and project updates by following Mr. Caldwell on his twitter
page here.

For more comics related art, you can follow me on my websitecomicstavern.com– Andy Yates

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2. Summer Vacation – lllustration by Bob
Ostrom Studio

By: BobOstrom, on 7/25/2014

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Summer Vacation!
Hope everyone is having a great summer! Last week I headed down to the beach here in North
Carolina for a short little summer vacation. Unfortunately it rained harder than I’ve ever seen it
rain. It was one of those rains where you think it can’t possibly rain any harder but then it
does….all day. Just as we checked into the hotel it started let up. The sun popped out for
about an hour and half so the kids and I grabbed our boogie boards and headed down to the
ocean. Right about the time we decided to to get out of the water the rain came back. And so it
went the following day. Two hours of sun at the beach in the morning (with the darkest storm
cloud I’ve ever seen on the horizon) followed by a torrential down pour. Since we don’t live too
far we decided enough was enough, jumped in the car and headed back home. All in all
everyone had a pretty great time. I think maybe we’ll head down another time before the
summer is done and see if we can’t get a little better weather.

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3. Drawing Super Heroes – Wonder Woman

By: BobOstrom, on 7/14/2014

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4. Learn character design from concept to completion with Character Mentor
By: Kenneth Kit Lamug, on 3/17/2014
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You’ve researched your character extensively, tailored her to your audience, sketched
hundreds of versions, and now you lean back content as you gaze at your final character
model sheet. But now what? Whether you want to use her in an animated film, television
show, video game, web comic, or children’s book, you’re going to have to make her perform.
How a character looks and is costumed starts to tell her story, but her body language reveals
even more. Character Mentor shows you how to pose your character, create emotion through
facial expressions, and stage your character to create drama. Author Tom Bancroft addresses
each topic with clear, concise prose, and then shows you what he really means through
commenting on and redrawing artwork from a variety of student “apprentices.” His
assignments allow you to join in and bring your drawing to the next level with concrete
techniques, as well as more theoretical analysis. Character Mentor is an apprenticeship in a
book.

Professional artists from a variety of media offer their experience through additional
commentary. These include Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), Terry Dodson (X-Men),
Bobby Rubio (Pixar), Sean “Cheeks” Galloway (Spiderman animated), and more. With a
foreword by comicbook artist Adam Hughes, who has produced work for DC, Marvel Comics,
Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. Pictures, and other companies.

Grab this book Character Mentor: Learn by Example to Use Expressions, Poses, and Staging
to Bring Your Characters to Life on Amazon.

Paperback: 180 pages

Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (April 24, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240820711

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5. Cartoon Illustration – Bob Ostrom Studio

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 By: BobOstrom, on 3/17/2014

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Illustration Work in Progress

Every once and a while it’s fun to post a little illustration work in progress. Here’s quick sneak
peak at my latest:

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6. What is the SATs looked like this?

By: BobOstrom, on 4/9/2014

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 Doctor Cartoon – By Bob Ostrom Studio

I was just thinking… What the fill in the blank questions on the SATs looked like this?
(Feel free to answer in the comments section. You will receive your test scores in the mail in
about 3 weeks)

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7. This time sans guns and smokes

By: Marc Tyler, on 5/5/2014

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In the early 2000s, upon learning that I was a cartoonist as well as writer, my Scholastic editor
Virginia Dooley proposed an update to a 1960s book that used cartoons to teach vocabulary.
She (postal) mailed me samples from the book. The cartoons used pistols, cigarettes, and
other elements you would not see in a typical children’s book today.

The book may not have been aimed at young people.

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In any case, the idea was to create 180 cartoons, one for every day of the school year—new
words, new gags. It seemed like a fun challenge.

Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day (grades 4-6) came out in 2005.

A keynoter at a SCBWI conference I’d

attended sometime before then said that in
1945, the average schoolchild’s vocabulary
consisted of 10,000 words…and now, only
2,500.
At professional development seminars where
I spoke, I would tell the audience that, if
nothing else, this book would help increase
that number to 2,680.

After repeated requests at those professional

development seminars, we did a second one
for a younger age range (illustrated by the
total pro Mike Moran). It came out in 2010.

In late 2013, I went looking for those

cartoons Virginia sent me more than a
decade ago. I didn’t remember that they were
not sent digitally. But when I didn’t find them
either on my computer or in my file, I asked
Virginia. She also could not find or remember
the source but did not think it was Scholastic.
So I took to Google. But it turns out my
searches for books with “vocabulary” and
“cartoon” in the title were for naught.

The title of the book, I believe, was Word-a-

Day, by Mickey Bach. It came out in 1964,
and it does appear that it was indeed
published by Scholastic (or at least one
edition was).

Apparently, Mickey Bach (1909-1994)

churned out these illustrated vocab builders
(they were not called vocabulary cartoons)
from the 1940s to the mid-1980s.
Here are a few demonstrating why the plan
was redo rather than reissue:

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Guns.

Smoking.

Boozing.

Beating.

Heaps of thanks to the kind and resourceful Rebecca

Knab of Loganberry Books for solving this mystery,
especially with so little to go on.
8. Johnny Appleseed Childrens Book Illustration

By: BobOstrom, on 6/18/2014

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Johnny Appleseed Childrens Book Illustration.
This one was from a recent series of books I worked on last year. I’ve tried this look before
once or twice using traditional art and a scanner but it was always a tedious process to get the
lines bold enough. The Cintiq has helped make creating bold pencil lines very easy. My next
goal is to start working on a more natural watercolor look.

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9. The Blue Sky Folder

By: BobOstrom, on 6/23/2014

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The Blue Sky Folder

Deep in the archives of my computer there is a small beacon of

light that shines brightly through the darkness. It’s called the
Blue Sky Folder. Inside is a collection of sketches, experiments,
new styles, new techniques, story concepts and a bunch of
projects in various stages of completion. This folder is basically
a resting place for all the ideas that rattle around inside my head
long enough for me to get them down on paper or into various
stages of digital completion. Like many other artists I’m always
restless to try new things and this is my outlet.
This is a Blue Sky piece I began almost 3 years ago. I wasn’t quite sure where I was headed
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with it at the time so I put it in hold to work on other things. I had totally forgotten about it until I
was leafing through the the folder recently and it caught my eye. One of the main reasons I
had put this one on hold was that the techniques I’d used to create it were very time
consuming and a bit unrefined. Looking at the piece again I realized that the solution was
sitting right in front of me. I didn’t have my Cintiq tablet when I started so any digital freehand
drawing was pretty much out of the question? As I popped the file up on my screen I realized
that was no longer an obstacle. It only took me a few hours to finish the piece and I’m psyched
because now I finally have a great way to save time and paint right on the computer.

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10. radiomaru: A nice person teaching at CalArts did an anatomy...

By: John, on 10/5/2012
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radiomaru:

A nice person teaching at CalArts did an anatomy lesson and included examples from me and
Meredith Gran and others.

See, I … I know what i’m… i’m … doing….

http://stulivingston.blogspot.com/2012/10/life-drawing-for-animation-demoz.html

We are in a golden age of comics and cartoonists being embraced by smart people in
academia. To those learning comics now as young people, enjoy this privilege that no other
generation before yours has enjoyed!

11. Favorites from "Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day" (grades 2-3), round 2

By: Marc Tyler, on 10/9/2012

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12. Favorites from "Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day"
(grades 2-3), round 3

By: Marc Tyler, on 10/11/2012

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13. johnmartz: For the third consecutive year I
designed the poster...
By: John, on 12/3/2012
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johnmartz:

For the third consecutive year I designed the poster for the National Cartoonist Society
Foundation’s Jay Kennedy Scholarship for Cartooning.

The deadline is fast approaching — applications must be postmarked by December 15th, 2012.
Any North American student who will be in their junior or senior year of college or university
during the 2013-2014 academic year is eligible. You do not have to be an art major. More
information at www.cartoonistfoundation.org
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This is a great opportunity for any student who draws comics, does animation, or dabbles in
any sort of cartooning. Only a few days left to get your application in the mail!

14. Preview: Comics About Cartoonists: The World’s Oddest Profession

By: Heidi MacDonald, on 1/20/2013

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Tweet Before “meta” was physical, before Modernism became Posted, before Art Popped,
cartoonists drew stories about cartoonists and cartooning! Some of it was autobiographical (or
possibly semi-auto… I doubt Milt Gross almost became Batman!), some of it was pure
fantasy. (The pygmalian dream of a drawing come to life is represented twice in this volume,
[...]

15. MTN Cartoons 1999-2013

By: Marc Tyler, on 3/4/2013

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On 11/3/99, I launched my first website.

MTN Cartoons (mtncartoons.com) was

devoted mostly to my single panel
cartoons (AKA gag cartoons); the page
listing the books I had written did only
that—list my books. No descriptions,
reviews, background. It was almost an
aside.
Around 2007, I set out to overhaul the
site to reflect that writing had become
the primary focus of my career. I bought
the (pricy) design software. I bought the
Dummies guide. I mapped out what I
wanted.

But then in 2008, I launched this blog.

It soon began to serve my objectives in

having an online presence and I
decided that, at least for the time being,
I didn’t need another site.

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I let MTN Cartoons linger only because my primary email was through that URL. But
eventually my gmail became more convenient.

So on 1/31/13, I canceled my hosting for MTN Cartoons. In a matter of days, the site was
down. One of those depressing “placeholder” sites of useless links was up.

I remember being proud that I was one of the first people (let alone first cartoonists) I knew to
have a site. And I’m proud that it lasted as long as it did, though I had not updated it since
2005.

I remember asking someone with web design experience about “framing” the cartoons with the
blue border I ultimately used along the left side. He said it’s not the way the web works;
because screen resolutions differ from computer to computer, you create a site that flows
down (vertical) rather than one hindered by horizontal aesthetics.

I remember being happy with the way I showcased my cartoons, though even then it was not
the most functional approach. (Of the hundreds of cartoons I’d done, I included only 30, and
there was no thumbnail gallery or “view by category.” You simply clicked from one to the
random next, though I did think I presented a clever way to skip ahead—three choices of “1-
10,” “11-20,” and “21-30.” Ah, simpler, un-savvy days.)

I will continue to sprinkle cartoons throughout this blog, and there are plenty elsewhere online
for the googling.

Here are screenshots of most of the pages, a nostalgic romp through.memorial to my

contribution to Web 1.0.

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16. Ink Clouds

By: Eric Orchard, on 3/6/2013

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Two pages left to ink in Maddy, the last pages are pretty tough but I've learned how to ink a
tough page in two or three days instead of five.
17. Batman is not the lead

By: Marc Tyler, on 3/30/2013

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Jerry Robinson, one of the first (and best) ghost artists on Batman, who passed away in 2011,
was a member of the National Cartoonists Society.

For a time, so was I.

And so I was given a copy of the NCS membership album (50th anniversary edition, no less).

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Robinson had a long, renowned career—so
long and renowned that he did not mention
Batman till halfway through his NCS bio!

Imagine having a string of accomplishments so impressive that you don’t lead with the fact that
you drew the first Joker story…
We all miss you, Jerry. You were truly the goldest of the Golden Age.

18. National Cartoonists Society

By: Marc Tyler, on 5/5/2013

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In 1999, the way I partied like it was, well, that year was by joining the National Cartoonists
Society.

This entitled me to a copy of the NCS membership album from 1996—the 50th anniversary
edition.

It also entitled me to an entry in the next

edition. Rather than copy and submit my high
school yearbook entry, I cobbled together
something new:

That site is defunct but the cartoons live on.

Happy National Cartoonists Day. You are convincing in your act that you did not already know
it was today.

19. The Dinobunnies dominate

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 By: Marc Tyler, on 5/16/2013

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On 3/8/11, I spoke at Pleasant Ridge Elementary in Overland Park, KS, notable for being the
first school in which I sat in a bathtub in the library. (Also notable for being a great school.)

More than a year later, the school shared some flattering news about its Battle of the Books
competition. A group of 4th graders who had lost the previous year changed their team name
and tried again as 5th graders. In 5/11, they won. The team name?

The Dinobunnies.

posted with permission (two stuffed animals were harmed in the making of that mascot)

During my presentations, after polling the audience, I sketch a couple of characters. Invariably,
one ends up being a dinobunny (sometimes dino-bunny, sometimes rabbitosaurus).

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(not taken at Pleasant Ridge but he always looks the same)

20. Cartoons for "Publishers Weekly"

By: Marc Tyler, on 5/30/2013

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BookExpo America opens today.

At BEA eleven years ago, my cartoons appeared in the Publishers Weekly Show Daily.

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21. Harts Pass No. 193
By: Erik Brooks, on 3/13/2014
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I started thinking about hibernating bears... and this is the result. Enjoy :)
22. Can you spot the two dots in this Mick Stevens cartoon that...
By: John, on 9/12/2012
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Can you spot the two dots in this Mick Stevens cartoon that threaten the New Yorker from
being banned from Facebook?

(via Nipplegate: Why the New Yorker Cartoon Department Is About to Be Banned from
Facebook : The New Yorker)

23. Oh jeez, just look at this poster by Joe Lambert for Cartoon...
By: John, on 9/21/2012
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Oh jeez, just look at this poster by Joe Lambert for Cartoon College, the documentary about
the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.

24. Where my cartoons appeared

By: Marc Tyler, on 9/27/2012

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From 1998 to 2002, I regularly submitted single-panel (gag) cartoons to dozens of magazines
and other publications in the United States, the United Kingdom, and occasionally elsewhere;
since 2002, I submit more sporadically, and also take on various cartooning projects that come
to me.

Here are the logos of most of the magazines to which I licensed cartoons around the turn of
the century (many of which no longer exist):

25. Favorites from "Vocabulary Cartoon of the Day"

(grades 2-3), round 1

By: Marc Tyler, on 10/4/2012

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Here's a cheeky nod to two other books I've written:

Here's a friendly jab at digital diehards:

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