The cartoon blog of Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. He discusses his cartoons, cartooning, comics and, oddly enough, LEGO.
In recent movie reviews I’ve mentioned my wife’s opinions as a sort of bonus. Occasionally during a film she’ll be moved to comment and recently I’ve begun counting how many times she says “You have got to be kidding me!”,…
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So this week I decided that it might be a good idea to leave the house once in a while and meet other people in cartooning and related industries. Cartooning is a wonderful profession for homebodies like me, but even…
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It’s like some beautiful dream… Steve Kelley of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Cagle.com has an absolutely wonderful editorial cartoon in Newsweek this week. The whole cat hunting angle is good, but the image of Garfield lying dead? C’est magnifique!…
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My paper, pencils and pens are probably the stars of my cartooning supplies. The laptop and scanner are right in there too, as is the graphics tablet I use for my color work. But recently I found myself contemplating some…
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Cartoonist Mark Heath wrote a really nice blog the other day entitled “Love and Obsession” about the last freelance cartoon he sold and his ensuing obsession with the then unpublished Spot the Frog. Mark explains how he immersed himself in…
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