High School Cartoons – 9/17/86

Here's another old cartoon of mine from my high school paper, The Lance.

Today's is from September 17, 1986. Here's a bit of the page it was on:

Lance 09 17 1986 Page

And here's the cartoon close up:

Lance 09 17 1986

This is really more of an illustration than a cartoon, so I can't rate the gag. You can see this is in my Don Martin big nose, giant chin phase. I think most cartoonists my age went through that.

Anyhow more on Wednesday!

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1959 Easy 3’s Cartoon Card Game

Easy 3S Box

A while back I posted an animated GIF of Carl Anderson's Henry from the back of a set of cards.

Those cards are from a 1959 set of Ed-U-Cards, and I've just posted the other sides over at Flickr.

The idea of the game was to get sets of three cards to make cartoon characters:

Easy3Oliveoyl

Go check 'em out!

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High School Cartoons – 5/14/86

Here's another old cartoon of mine from my high school paper, The Lance.

Today's is from May 14, 1986. Here's a bit of the page it was on:

Lance 05 14 1986 Page

And here's the cartoon close up:

Lance 05 14 1986

I remember how this one came about. I'd asked the teacher/adivsor person what I should do that week's cartoon on, and he suggested that I do something on report cards coming out soon, and also that he loved that Jon Lovitz' pathological liar character from SNL. I remember it going something like "why don't you put those two together and have a kid lying about how good his grades are or something."

So that's pretty much what I did.

It's a bad gag (for which I take only partial credit), but the art's not bad.

Anyhow, I think that's when I got really serious about writing my own gags.

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Valentine’s Day Cartoons

Just a reminder that February 14th is coming up soon. There's plenty of Valentine's Day cartoons over at everyone's favorite cartoon site just in case your newsletter or presentation needs a little love.

Here's a sample (embedded via the Andertoons embed cartoon feature of course):

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