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WHO or WHAT, then, absolutely--and actually----inspired me to take up cartooning at all in the first place;   what was the real EUREKA! moment?   WHEN was the actual moment that changed my life forever? Who or WHAT caused it?! --Well, I actually remember the moment very vividly---I was very young, very likely well under five years of age. WAS IT:     D C THOMSON? -----Thomson have been an absolute huge inspiration to my cartoon syle and approach, especially the higher-grade [in general] output of the 60s decade. I do remember wishing 'I was Dudley D Watkins' and to create something like Oor Wullie on my own, but not so much now.  I partly put down the heavy British 'funnies' comic-influence down to comics being the only cheap media availible to study cartoon art at leisure when I was very young: no VCRS until I was in my early 20s [for me anyway, bought with my first D C Thomson wage packet!] let alone the internet like today so it is now easy to study all forms...

MOST OF MY RECENT cartoon additions have been excavated works of olde, partly because most of my recent material I cannot screen as yet due to me handing over the copyright of characters I designed for paying customers, etc , etc--these will follow on here in due course, however. SO!!!!!! THIS ENTRY HERE is most certainly a brand-new cartoon and in fact I just finished it off today: it is for a facebook group I am a member of, so the idea is really geared towards locals from the area in Scotland I grew up in---I am also showing my age here with a vintage bus [much more character, these older vehicles] from my youth depicted in the scenario: RAB L RAUSER

I ACTUALLY THOUGHT I HAD LOST THIS ITEM FOR GOOD: ---this is the full-scale, un-edited original version of a poster I done for a RAMONES tribute act a few years back. A smaller version of this exists elsewhere on this site but this one here is the 'real deal'. If you are not careful, original image-files can get easily lost amongst all your computer-stuff and how on Earth this baby got transferred from my older computer onto this new one I am using now is beyond me---I am glad it finally turned up though, I have been able to hang onto virtually all of my ful-sized files. All this material goes onto back-up files seperate from my computer hard-drive in case I lose the bleedin' lot. I was a big punk fan first time around so the RAMONES was a real-interest theme: RAB L RAUSER

AS FAR AS I CAN MAKE OUT, this was the final satirical cartoon I done for an interested party in Jan 2016: if any more turn up I will duly add them on here. As can be seen, I really simplified my style deliberately here however this was what the buyer specified. IDEA NOT WRITTEN BY ME Rab L Rauser

I AM Checking through a lot of my artwork digital files to make sure I have kept back-up copies. I especially like to hang onto larger scale files that hold better detail: so far, as well as I can gather, I have been able to hold onto the most important, or time-consuming cartoons. Sometimes I find forgotten works previously unshown; ---this one was a sketch try-out for a job that went no-where.

BACK TO MORE CRUCIAL CARTOON MATTERS folowing the last post which centred on trivial human behavior as experienced on a seemingly useless site-forum,  ---recently I announced I have been busy doing a fairly large cartoon job, in fact this is my first 'proper' sequential strip for a long time: I gave up on the UK comic strip market due to lack of work opportunities/ the comics today were not really all that good anyway in my view. HOWEVER!  ---The internet sure serves up opportunities out of the blue beyond and I am just finishing off a fairly ambitious work. I cannot show full frames until after payment/ copyright hand-over etc, but here is a taste of what will be shown on here before long: This scenario sure sets the tone of what will follow on this site before too long: RAB L RAUSER

ANOTHER everything-including-the-kitchen-sink addition to these images, ---this item represents me abandoning my usual 'all-out' anarchic approach to cartooning in which I just draw according to my whims and fancies: this was another very recent commercial sale, which the buyer was seemingly very pleased with , however left to my own devices I will more than likely turn out more direct and hard-hitting stuff. Great I can do truly commercial stuff if the opportunity arises however: also, this assignment got me interested in continuing with this SHARKS theme and a fair few more aquatic predator designs are in the can, so to speak, and on the way. RAB L RAUSER