Satire-Toon Shenanigans
SOMETIMES I GET CARTOON JOB REQUESTS totally out of the blue, and that was the story behind this cartoon below.
In January 2016, a young German chap with his own ideas but in need of cartoon skills got in touch with me and offered me a job drawing up some of his ideas: he intended trying out the USA satire Magazines like NEW YORKER.
I informed him this was an extremely difficult market to crack [although they pay pretty well if you are good enough/lucky enough to get your material accepted].
I dabbled a wee bit in satirical cartooning in the very early 2000s but to be honest I find the British satire mag situation to be snobby and reserved [unlike, say, the unbridled exuberance often seen in the USA equivalent MAD MAGAZINE].
So in all liklihood, these newly-released cartoons were my first real 'proper' excursion into this field.
Here I was trying to approximate the look of the older NEW YORKER ambience and atmosphere.
More of these coming up sometime.
DRAWING IDEA IN THIS INSTANCE NOT BY ME
In January 2016, a young German chap with his own ideas but in need of cartoon skills got in touch with me and offered me a job drawing up some of his ideas: he intended trying out the USA satire Magazines like NEW YORKER.
I informed him this was an extremely difficult market to crack [although they pay pretty well if you are good enough/lucky enough to get your material accepted].
I dabbled a wee bit in satirical cartooning in the very early 2000s but to be honest I find the British satire mag situation to be snobby and reserved [unlike, say, the unbridled exuberance often seen in the USA equivalent MAD MAGAZINE].
So in all liklihood, these newly-released cartoons were my first real 'proper' excursion into this field.
Here I was trying to approximate the look of the older NEW YORKER ambience and atmosphere.
More of these coming up sometime.
DRAWING IDEA IN THIS INSTANCE NOT BY ME
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