Early Jim Henson Advertisements

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I realize these aren’t cartoons, but I love the muppets… Jim Henson’s work always seemed in the same vein as animated cartoons for me. I ran across these great Wilkins coffee commercials that Henson made on YouTube the other night.

These are some of Henson’s earliest work (apparently from the late 50’s). They are all probably about 15 seconds, and are mostly extremely violent and often hilarious. This has to have been some of the most outrageous humor on tv at the time. All follow the same routine, but deal with it in different inventive ways, sometimes they fall totally flat or are just corny, sometimes they are totally hilarious (and often corny as well).

If you dig the clip, there are 8 more of them on YouTube to go through as well.

Some Interesting Links

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Here are some tutorials and other information that look interesting that I’ve run across on the web recently, although I haven’t read most of them thoroughly yet…

Artbabe’s Jessica Abel provides information on making comics, selling comics and getting comics.

Michael Halbert provides some tutorials on doing scratchboard work.

Article on making comics by the late, great Virgil Partch.

Neil Gaiman provides a template for leaving a literary will.

Also, here is an interview with the founder of the Cornstalker comics collective, which offers a lot of information about starting an online comics collective.

Chapter One of Kevin Cannon’s 288 Hour Comic

24 Hour Comics

My friend, madman Kevin Cannon, accepted the 288 Hour Comic Challenge. He is drawing a 288 Hour graphic novel in 12 24 Hour chunks over the next year or so. He completed the first chunk the other weekend… it features Kevin’s enigmatic action anti-hero (who some of you may have already met) Armitage Shanks, Arctic Pirate. As with all of Kevin’s work, it is quite wonderful. Read it here:

Make sure to leave some encouraging words for his mad venture on the blog there.

Here are Kevin’s previous 24 Hour comics he produced at the three Minneapolis 24 Hour events we’ve had so far:

2004: The Next 24 Hours
2005: Armitage Shanks: Arctic Pirate
2006: A General Theory of Love

LMNTAL by the San Francisco Cell

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A new comic ebook is now on-line from the artist of the Cartoonist Conspiracy Cell of San Francisco, CA. It features a unique challenge where the participants strove to avoid words and to draw natural disasters. You can find the 8 page e-book(pdf) in the gallery section of this site. We would love to know what you think, please tell us your comments, kudos, critiques, etc. by leaving comments on this post or visit our thread on the message board.

The artist who participated are:

Page 1: (cover) Doc Popular, Jeff Plotkin, Brian Kolm

page 2: Jeff Plotkin – URL: geocities.com/happyfreakshow/

Page 3: Brian Kolm – URL: AtomicBearPress.com

Page 4: Jeffrey Mulletti

Page 5: Doc Popular – url: DoctorPopular.com

Page 6: Meredith Scheff – URL LadyCartoonist.com/

Page 7: Mike Hale – URL wobblyart.com

Page 8: Brian Kolm – URL: AtomicBearPress.com

826 Valencia Volunteering Opps

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I’ve talked to a lot of Bay Area cartoonists about volunteering at 826 Valencia as a field trip artist and a lot of people have asked me what to expect. I posted the most recent book that I helped create and a little breakdown of what the process is like on my blog, so if you’ve wondered what to expect if you volunteer for a field trip read this entry. It’s super fun and at the end of each session all the kids and volunteers get a bound copy of the book the story they just created.

There are always volunteering spots open for field trips, so if you are interested let Jory at 826 know. I’ve posted his most recent list of field trip dates in our San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy forum.

24 Hr. Comics in San Francisco

24 Hour Comics, Events, Projects

Our first 24 hr. comic from Conspiritor Jeff Plotkin in now online. Jeff has posted a journal about his experience as well as the pages of his comic.

It was held at my old school, the California College of Art. So I went down. There were just five of us there: me, Meredith, Mike, Jeffrey M. and Carmen. I knew everyone except Carmen. The turnout was small, probably because there were no SF Bay Area locations listed for the nationwide event. Some of my buddies in the Cartoonist Conspiracy had their own, unofficial 24-Hour Comics Day, and Scott McCloud was probably miffed about it.

To read the whole report on Deviant Art — LINK

And to read Jeff’s comic visit HERE! The comic features a cameo from Cartoonist Doc Popular! CLICK the link under each page to see the read the next one.

We will link to more 24 hr comics when they become avalible.

Rejected in San Francisco, CA

Events

The cartoon art museum has a new exhibit, The Rejection Collection: Not in The New Yorker cartoons. There will be an opening next Monday night, October 16th from 7pm to 9pm. The special Guests: Gahan Wilson and Mike Twohy!!

The show is free to the general public, but the museum is also looking for volunteers to help with the event. To volunteer, give them a call at 415-CAR-TOON.

Besides checking out the new show, the exhibit of children’s book illustrations as well as kid’s art from 826 Valencia…a large part of the Permanent Collection has been updated to include ALL NEW WORK!

Be there or be Square.

To find out more, visit: cartoonart.org (note: the info on the new exhbit is going up soon, so if you don’t see anything give them a call at the number above)