Tag: frustrated cartoonist

  • The Frustrated Cartoonist – At 100

    Our final selection is from Nate Fakes.  He draws, might draw, used to draw the Frustrated Cartoonist.  Hell, I don’t know.  You see Nate has hit the big time with Mad Magazine as well and will have a recurring strip going forward.  He swears that doesn’t mean the end of his Frustrated Cartoonist character Jim, but given how he drew him at 100, I think it might be a sign.

    The Frustrated Cartoonist is Jim who longs to be like Nate and actually get paid to do his craft.  Yet like all of us frustrated cartoonists, he has to manage a day job to pay the bills.  That and his girlfriend and neighbors seem to cut into actual cartooning time.  Anyone who has ever had a hobby that they eventually wanted to become a career will relate.

    So I give you the slow progression of age of Jim.

    Aging Jim

    So thanks Nate and thanks to all the great cartoonists for helping me out.  I look forward to reading all the comments.

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  • New Cartoon Wednesday

    Don’t have a new one myself but some of my favorite “undiscovered” cartoonists have new toons up that you should check out.

    Addanac City – A comic strip about Hank Addanac (part Dennis the Menace, part Bart Simpson, part Michael Meyers).

    Calamities of Nature – when animals talk, people listen. (even though he was on the front page of Digg yesterday, I’ll still put him in here)

    Life with Kreg – if Jeff Spicoli were a teenager today.

    Spud Comics – The Far Side without the Cows

    The Frustrated Cartoonist – Mad Magazine contibutor.  Part webcomic, part diary.

    And while not a cartoonist herself, The Daily Uplift, has an hilarious animated commercial for Bontrust Bank.  You have to wait for it though.

    Anyone else a cartoonist that people should check out. Put it in the comments section.

     

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