The cartoon blog of Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. He discusses his cartoons, cartooning, comics and, oddly enough, LEGO.
I just picked up an almost perfect copy of The Art of Cartooning (1975). The listing on Amazon mentioned several artists had signed the inside cover, but didn’t give any names. Imagine my surprise to find the following: I think…
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Mark Luce’s review of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes in today’s Kansas City Star is pretty much your standard “huge book” “groundbreaking strip” “timeless classic” blah blah blah that I’m assuming most reviewers are filling their respective papers with lately….
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OK, so I haven’t exactly been the paragon of blog update virtue as of late, but this time I have a really good reason. A couple, actually… The Anderson family is expecting again! (Feel free to dance vicariously. I’ll wait…)…
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So last Friday I went downtown and hung out with some Chicagoland cartoonists for a few hours, and I gotta tell ya, it felt good. There were some folks I didn’t get the chance to really sit down and talk…
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I came across these postcards of famous cartoonists in some recent rambling online: Sepia-tone photographs of important cartoonists, many with signatures and key characters. This is the original shrink-wrapped package with the gold descriptive sticker still intact over shrinkwrap. This…
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