The cartoon blog of Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. He discusses his cartoons, cartooning, comics and, oddly enough, LEGO.
It’s funny how cartoons change. I keep a box next to my drafting table full of slips of paper with ideas. I don’t draw anything on them, they’re just covered with gags. A standard page usually has three or four…
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I love Filemaker. I think the common conception of the artist is one surrounded by various piles of slovenly creativity. Not me. I’m a neat freak. (OK, I leave dirty clothes next to the hamper in my bedroom, but that’s…
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One of the best ideas my web team came up with is something called mod_rewrite: This module uses a rule-based rewriting engine (based on a regular-expression parser) to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. It supports an unlimited number of…
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A while back on the old Andertoons, I started displaying the tags I’d associated with each cartoon. Very simply, when I create a cartoon and enter it into my database, I assign a number of words that apply to it….
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Leprechauns The word ‘binky’ Fake Scottish accents Any 10 consecutive words from The Big Lebowski Impending doom Sales graphs (odd, I know, but the number of cartoons I’ve done about them bear me out) Mimes Anthropomorphic food The phrase “tri-state…
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