Comments on: “big cartoons”

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:37:27 +0000

I love the shift in perspective when you change the size of your canvas. I can’t believe how different my art became when I stopped sketching in little books and began painting on huge canvases. I’m intrigued to see how you go.

By: Alice Bachini-Smith

Alice Bachini-Smith — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:21:38 +0000

Leonardo da Vinci made cartoons too, of course.

By: Mary Anne Davis

Mary Anne Davis — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:49:24 +0000

Good direction. You go, dude.

By: jon

jon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:41:12 +0000

Can I just say there’s a little bit of life in the old dog yet. Editorial cartoons were being slowly strangled by syndication in the USA well before the internet came along, and it’s still pretty healthy in Australia.
The are two major saving graces of ed cartoons. Firstly they’re a major point of difference for a masthead, which will become more rather than less important as everything goes digital and secondly, they’re current, so the market constantly needs new stuff. Assuming mastheads survive in some shape or form. Well, I hope so, anyway…
Nothing wrong with doing something different with the ol’ words and pictures though. It’s a pretty versatile form of art.

By: Bruce DeBoer

Bruce DeBoer — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:19:13 +0000

Hugh, I think I’ve heard you say — or write — if you can’t be first in a category, make you’re own fucking category. Be the artist formerly known for small cartoons and then call them NOTHING.
I love that you’re moving to a new medium but maintaining your identity. Cool man.
–bruce

By: Oza Meilleur

Oza Meilleur — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:41:34 +0000

I’ve always seen you as an artist.
Would you call Keith Haring a cartoonist?
Just sayin’…

By: Frank Hinton

Frank Hinton — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:39:43 +0000

I guess with your cartoons it’s just close enough to making sense but then the mind fails to grip it, at least at first, then you are kind of pulled deeper by the curiosity of trying to understand what the scene is about. I feel like I’m looking at the echo of a city when I set my eyes on your cartoons.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:57:28 +0000

As a writer, I think taking your current “form” or “genre” and expanding it (no pun intended) is always a good thing.
We can get bored as artists, and the last thing we want is boring work, so I think it’s quite nice you’ve grown (quite literally) your canvas.
Enjoy your blog. I just finished your book and have been recommending it to my writer friends.
best,
Kelli
Kelli Russell Agodon
http://www.agodon.com

By: Moise Levi

Moise Levi — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:49:29 +0000

I agree with you , a cartoon is a cartoon, no matter what size it is
I draw cartoons here http://www.tooons.blogspot.com and when you look at my paintings http://www.moiselevi.blogspot.com they look like BIG cartoons.
Cartoons help me get a message across my financial blog. Then readers end up buying my paintings.