Year Zero [TWO]
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 of cartoon art very easily.
WAS IT:
WALT DISNEY?
Like virtually everyone else on the Planet, I was hugely impressed with the works of Disney at a young age and yes I yearned to work in a place like theirs that turned out these deeply impressive cel-technique works. [Aged 28, I did get to work in a feature-standard studio with at least 300 other artists, but that experience was pretty dire, but I have seen what it is like ] Old school Disney is absolutely unbeatable in terms of professionalism, there is no question of that.
BUT NO!!!!
It is none of the above: the highly-charged moment of TRUE INSPIRATION where I just knew I wanted to be a cartoonist comes directly from watching an old MAX FLEISCHER-era POPEYE cartoon and this impressed me even more than D C Thomson or the best of Disney.
I do not enjoy copying, or adapting, established styles, but I will make an exception in this case:
RAB L RAUSER
POPEYE and SWEE'PEA characters are copyright of KING FEATURES SYNDICATE
BABY BOOMER character owned by ZOOMERTOON Enterprizes
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 of cartoon art very easily.
WAS IT:
WALT DISNEY?
Like virtually everyone else on the Planet, I was hugely impressed with the works of Disney at a young age and yes I yearned to work in a place like theirs that turned out these deeply impressive cel-technique works. [Aged 28, I did get to work in a feature-standard studio with at least 300 other artists, but that experience was pretty dire, but I have seen what it is like ] Old school Disney is absolutely unbeatable in terms of professionalism, there is no question of that.
BUT NO!!!!
It is none of the above: the highly-charged moment of TRUE INSPIRATION where I just knew I wanted to be a cartoonist comes directly from watching an old MAX FLEISCHER-era POPEYE cartoon and this impressed me even more than D C Thomson or the best of Disney.
I do not enjoy copying, or adapting, established styles, but I will make an exception in this case:
RAB L RAUSER
POPEYE and SWEE'PEA characters are copyright of KING FEATURES SYNDICATE
BABY BOOMER character owned by ZOOMERTOON Enterprizes
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