Our Visiting Artist today was Zippy the Pinhead! Well, Bill Griffith actually, but he IS a cartoon character in his own comics. This was one of those visits where, even though I had heard of the famous cartoon, I was not much of a fan. But after hearing the story of its creation, and the...
Our artist today was John Martz, a cartoonist and kids' book illustrator from Canada. One idea I'd like to steal is to find a signature character (his is a robot) and use it as a daily drawing exercise - fill a sketchbook with just that character interacting with the panels of the comic,...
When we got our homework last week, I saw the assignment and joked, "96-pages??!!! I can have a breakdown in only 4 pages!" Silly girl. When will I learn not to brag. The Breakdown is still going... On the positive side, the rough week has inspired some interesting plot twists. If I...
Some of our teachers are really good at that kind of slow, mind-torture that makes you want to curl up in a ball with a bag of chips, mindless tv and just gnaw on your toes. Know what I mean? No? Fine. They all pretended to take pity on us after finishing the grueling...
I did a post on my Beez In the Belfry blog a bit earlier this week about the Artsy Weekend with the Kid - I realized I wanted to show you folks some more stuff from this weekend. I mentioned in that post that Lilah joined the Cartoon Club for kids that meets once a month...
The Visiting Artists today were Melissa Mendes and Chuck Forsman. Both were students at the Center for Cartoon Studies a few years ago, so it was interesting to see how their careers have developed since then. Chuck had an interesting observation "when gravity is pulling me in one direction, I can't help...
