Month: July 2006

Gummy Miles (Hobo #186)

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So after an hour and half of driving back and forth to the zoo with the kids, and a few hours walking around the zoo with the kids, I can’t say I was dying to get down to any real work this afternoon.

Enter 700 hoboes!

What is/are 700 hoboes you ask? John Hodgman started it, Mark Frauenfelder had an idea, and, well, a bunch of people looking to waste some time started drawing.

You can learn more at E-Hobo!

Anyway, I took it upon myself to create hobo #186, Gummy Miles:

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The Evolution of My Signature

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Mike Lynch & I were talking the other day about Mort Drucker, and I mentioned that I’ve always loved his signature:

Mort-Drucker

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):

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And here’s the cartoon it came from (click the cartoon to enlarge it):

Signature85

Another from high school, circa 1986:

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And the cartoon:

Signature86

Another high school signature from 1987:

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And its corresponding cartoon:

Signature87

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…):

Signature98Zoom

You can see the cartoon it came from here…

I changed to this, my current and probably final version, around 2002 or so:

Signature02Zoom

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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Glorious Failure, and Plenty of It

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I was talking about failing and failing often earlier in the week, and I ran across this Henry Martin book, “Good News – Bad News.”

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Martin is one of my favorite cartoonists, and goodness knows he was successful, but when I got to the back of the book, I noticed how many of the cartoons were listed as ‘previously unpublished.’ (Click on the images to see larger ones…)

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There’s a lot of failure in the back of that book; a lot of really good, useful, necessary failure.

And that’s why Martin sold so much.

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Mucho Mailbox!

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AndertoonsmailboxYes, it’s mailbox time again! Let’s see what people are emailing me lately…

I enjoy cartoons. Be anything!

Good for you. You too!

hey do you have any colored cartoons i am tired of black and white holla.

I’m not up on slang (although I recently did a cartoon involving some bling), so I actually Googled “holla” and got this from UrbanDictionary.com:

Holla-



1. A way for a brotha to say he wants to get in your pants

2. A pimp ass way of saying ‘what up’

3. May be used to end a conversation

So I can sleep at night, I’ll assume this person intended definition number three. (And yes, I do work in color.)

Talk Talk Please !! I made up a cartoon and named it Sammy Kazam!

Sir, please step away from the keyboard. Nice and easy, that’s it. Come on now, I know you don’t want to send that email…

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