Mike Lynch & I were talking the other day about Mort Drucker, and I mentioned that I’ve always loved his signature:
I remember being a kid admiring Drucker’s work in Mad and thinking how cool those three lines for the “M” were (and are).
So, I dug into the archives and found various incarnations of my own signature. You can even see me copying Drucker a bit…
Here’s one from when I worked on my high school newspaper (1985):
And here’s the cartoon it came from (click the cartoon to enlarge it):
Another from high school, circa 1986:
And the cartoon:
Another high school signature from 1987:
And its corresponding cartoon:
And here we jump quite a bit. I studied to be, and worked as a trombonist for about 10 years, worked some day jobs, etc… And then I got back into cartooning.
This is from 1998 (I think…):
You can see the cartoon it came from here…
I changed to this, my current and probably final version, around 2002 or so:
I have thought over the years to changing my signature to “Andertoons” to help drive traffic to the site, but, honestly, this is probably the end of the line.
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haha great post Mark. I've had some shocking signatures in previous times too – I notice that there are a few people around using the old "Mort – M and E" – I think Tom Richmond uses the M and the N in Richmond from memory. It's a pretty cool style. Go see Tom's new site. It's at http://www.tomrichmond.com – amazing stuff.
Hey, I like your old cartoons. That Marcos gag was good! Post more!
Tom's stuff is amazing, and the site is prett yneat at first, but those all Flash sites tire me out fast. Sometimes I just want a menu, you know?
And I'll be posting more of my early crap soon! Hoo-boy!
Another amazing coincidence: your '98 signature uses the same gimmick I use with my signature (just with more letters.)
Yeah, but yours is infinitely cooler!