{"id":2743,"date":"2010-12-11T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T19:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2010-12-11T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T19:56:32","slug":"cartoonist-john-bush-1954-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Cartoonist John Bush, 1954-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the TagTeam.TV<\/a> website:<\/p>\n

Our friend John Bush created this illustration for the Tag Team website, just months before his untimely death of non-smokers lung cancer in 2006. John was a talented illustrator, whose cartoons were featured in St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, and many other publications.
\nHe was also a diehard Packer fan, who proudly heralded from La Crosse, Wisonsin. But most importantly, he was a beloved husband, devoted father of three, and friend to many. We miss him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My aunt Virginia lives in Edina. Over the past several years, as my cartooning<\/a> has grown from interest to obsession, she’s occasionally mentioned an old friend and neighbor of hers, the late cartoonist John Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More recently, she mentioned to Bush’s wife, Nancy, that she has a niece who likes making comics. Nancy said that she’s been going through some of her husband’s old art supplies, and would I be interested in taking any of them? I said, of course!<\/p>\n

Aunt Virginia drove to my parents’ house in Northfield for a visit this weekend. She left the supplies from Nancy on their giant basement craft table. Thus it was that, on this snowy Minnesota morning, I found myself gazing upon…the holy grail of art supplies!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Box upon box of every kind of art supply, ranging from functional to fanciful!<\/p>\n

I’m always intrigued by the materials that fellow cartoonists use: if I could, I would poke my way into all of their personal studios, to get a detailed idea of what they use, how they use it, and how they organize it.<\/p>\n

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To have so many of John Bush’s art materials bestowed upon me is one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me as a cartoonist. I only wish I could ask<\/em> him about this stuff, to learn more about how he used it. I’m not even sure what all of it is<\/em>, or if he actually used all of it. Maybe, like my mom and me, he was a guy who never passed up an opportunity for cheap craft and art supplies–especially the weird used stuff found in junk boxes at garage sales.<\/p>\n

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\n(Do any cartoonists out there know how to use that thick rubber stuff? Does anyone have any idea what that giant hole-puncher thing is for?)<\/em><\/p>\n

The paper was one of the most exciting parts to me. There is so much <\/em>of it. In every size and weight and style you can think of! Lots and lots and lots<\/em> of Bristol.<\/p>\n

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\n(Is anyone familiar with that strange TV Paper? Is it for storyboarding? It’s got those little TV screens printed on every sheet.)<\/em><\/p>\n

There are all kind of mattes for framing things. And rub-on letters and numbers that I’m curious to test out in a comic sometime soon. And stack after stack of sketch paper!<\/p>\n

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Then there are the paints. I have almost zero experience with painting, but my younger sister, a studio art major at Grinnell College, will no doubt find much use for them.<\/p>\n

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Coolest of all? Some copies of a poster Bush made for a local jazz radio station…and a page of some of his original doodles! They remind me a bit of Jules Feiffer. I like them.<\/p>\n

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Cartoonists are good people. I never get tired of learning about them. I really loved this opportunity to peek into John Bush’s creative process, by way of the tools he left behind. I will think of him whenever I use them.<\/p>\n

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