The blog of Richard Thompson, caricaturist, creator of "Cul de Sac," and winner of the 2011 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Monday, November 5, 2007

More Names, or, The Place is Getting Crowded


Lyonel Feininger, Ed Koren, J J Sempe, Jim Borgman, Elzie Segar, Frank Willard, Saul Steinberg, William Steig, Barry Blitt, Bruce McCall, John Cuneo, Heinrich Kley, Peter Steiner, Steve Brodner, David Levine, Chuck Jones, Chris Ware, Crockett Johnson, Percy Crosby, Dr. Seuss, Lisbeth Zwerger, Ernest Shepard,...

(click on dailycartoonist at right for some explanation, if necessary)

6 comments:

Kid Shay said...

Chuck Jones...I was watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon on DVD. I watched one scene in slow motion and I'll be darned if Bugs didn't show more emotion, didn't go through more changes of expression, in that one scene than some comic characters in a month.

Cartoons go by so quickly, it's difficult, even when I'm paying attention to the craft of it, to take it all in.

Mike Rhode said...

People posting comments on your blog?

richardcthompson said...

I have to keep deleting comments made by Heinrich Kley because they're insulting & obscene.

here today, gone tomorrow said...

Very fun list you compiled, with interesting comments. Thanks for pointing the way to it.

Mark Heath said...

If you look way way in the back of the photograph, you can see me waving. Not in greeting, but in desperation, as I'm going down for the third time, swamped by the vast history of cartoonists who are no longer remembered.

richardcthompson said...

I know, Mark. You're blocking me.

My all-time favorite New Yorker cartoon is one by Robert Weber. It's full-page, b&w, and it shows this massive crowd of angels in heaven, billions of them, standing posed on this vast cloudbank that rises out of sight. At the bottom in the foreground is an angel with a camera on a tripod and he's waving at somebody in the posing multitude and saying, "Lucy, move over. You're blocking Pliny the Elder."