Homemade Cartoons

OK, I saw all or most. You have real talent both as a serious artist and a publishable cartoonist!

Thanks! I hope someday to get my work published.

I like to experiment with different media.

The work is worth it, but if you're looking at a daily comic strip you would have to consider the total drudgery of having to come up with something every day.

Spitting coffee through nose. Changing shirt, pants, etc.
All your fault, darnit!

Your cartoons are a great mix of terrific drawing/painting/et al and unusually sharp humor. I wish you success in finding a good publisher - no advice on that by me but maybe others here will have some.

Well, I guess I'll be the dissenting vote here.

While I think his art work is good, and would be great perhaps in a graphic novel, I think the humor consistently misses the mark.

Like in my comment earlier, it feels like the word choices seem a little off, and/or the caption/picture isn't exactly funny. It feels like the type of thing that if someone you know showed it to you and said they made it up, you would politely smile.

To the OP, have you considered using your artistic talent in a more perhaps serious context, as I said above, a graphic novel?

I disagree with Chai, Bob. I think your artwork is terrific...and your humor is above average.

amen. artwork needs no one to edit or critique ...you're awesome there. cartoon lines could use a little editing but not that much.

But your work has been published Bob.
You said in another forum....

I got some good news in the mail today. After four years (and publishing nearly 400 cartoons) I received my first check from a magazine (Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine) which purchased five of my cartoons. I'm looking forward to seeing my work published in a real magazine.

I'm not trying to be a downer, it's just that your cartoons can be easily found, you've sold them, but it feels like you're trying to make it seem otherwise.

It's great you've been published, and being paid for it is even better.

I was under the impression that was what he was looking for.

If everyone just tells you that you're great, with no one giving a different opinion, why that's just unhelpful to a person.

You're a photographer ragman, don't you welcome it when someone says something not glowing about your work? Don't you look at different opinions and learn from them?

Hey, if Bob came here to just hear every single person tell him how wonderful he is, how is he going to grow?

As a person who has an opinion, mine is there's plenty of room for growth. His art is good, but perhaps better suited to another genre.

It's not as if I said "you suck". His art doesn't suck at all. In fact, it reminded me of some of the art in the Sandman series. The humor is just a tad too forced to me.

Frank and ragman, I specifcally said before the art is good.

Dearest chai2.
You're the last person I'd expect to get defensive here.
I value your straightforward opinions and happen to agree with your take on the humor content.
It's obvious we all appreciate the artwork here and a dissenting voice or two shouldn't get anybody's knickers all bunched up.
Nuff said.

Meantime, I still love the work.

One suggestion - consider black and white and greys if you haven't already (thinking New Yorker).

I'm taken aback and I have no idea why you have a bee in your bonnet. I never addressed you, thought about nor intended my comment about you. I certainly never saw you being critical of his art work, either.

Rephrasing, my comment (not sure why I am)...

I see nothing to critique about his artwork. It's quite good. Hence a positive critique. However others choose to express their opinion is their choice.

I've one more idea. New Yorker covers, they're primarily in color, are often but not always topical.

A few years back their website had a place to click on and look up the info on, or blogs by, the new yorker cartoonists, rather fascinating, and I'm sorry that in all their redoing of the website, they've stopped with that, far as I can see. Now you've got to figure out the inscrutable signatures, unless you get it that they announce who did the drawings somewhere in front of the magazine, and then go google. Well, some aren't inscrutable, like DIFFEE.

I like the pinstripes.

Yes and no - I sold five cartoons to a magazine but I don't believe they ever got around to publishing them. And this is after telling all my friends and family I got published. So now I'm retreating a bit on my earlier claim.

I have considered black and white. I elected to stay with color because I like it and converting the art to monochrome pretty much takes all the color out.