Stephen DeStefano at Channel Frederator

Check out this interview with Stephen DeStefano. A very amazing cartoonist, and the interview has beautiful gigantic images to look at while you're reading...

Also visit DeStefano's blog

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Take Notes

F.G. Cooper

Click for a strip from F.G. Cooper that orignally appeared in Life magazine. This is scanned from another page in The Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning.

Gluyaswilliams.com Update

Today I added a little bit of new stuff to gluyaswilliams.com, and put most of the illustrations section back online. There's a new image for the main page, too, that looks kind of snazzy.

Anyhow, this is the first site I've made that uses CSS, so if it doesn't look the same on your browser as it does in the image up above, let me know...

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How Animated Cartoons Were Made

Here's a few pages from The Complete Guide to Professional Cartooning by Gene Byrnes. The text in this section is credited to Fred Quimby, producer of most (or all?) of MGM's 40s and 50s cartoon shorts, but most likely written by somebody else. Lots of photos of late-40s MGM staff, including Joe Barbera, Bill Hanna, Tex Avery and Scott Bradley. Also, model sheets, paint mixers and more. Hope you like it!

Let me know you're interested and I'll try to post more from this great book...

Link to a large scan of the "Ol' Rockin' Chair Tom" storyboard (530k)

New Rough Comic Pages

Here's two pages from my continuing Vice-President, Shipping & Distribution, Office Machines Company story (the first part is for sale here). Forgive the occasionally illegible text, and click for a slightly larger version.

Super Duck Comic

This is a 6-page Super Duck comic that was reprinted in Pat the Brat Digest #1 back in 1980. I'm not sure where or when it originally appeared. And since the scans are from a digest, the color dots are big and the whole thing looks kind of lousy. ENJOY

UPDATE: According to this post at The Beat, Joe Edwards, regular artist on Super Duck, passed away last Thursday, 2/8. I presume he did this story, but I'm not sure. Either way, R.I.P. Joe Edwards.

Today's Sketchbook

The guy on the left is basically Shermy from Peanuts, but grown up. I think I'll eventually use him in a comic and his personality will be based on a guy I used to work with in Chicago named Larry. On the right is Welby from Reliable Comics #1 (for sale). As far as drawings go, these aren't bad, but I'd like them to be a little looser; I'll have to keep working at it.

Unemployment Funnies

Colored using the swatches from this site, found via boingboing

Some Doodles

Today's Sketchbook

Daffy Duck is difficult to draw.

From Filboid Studge: Gluyas Williams at Life

An excellent group of Gluyas Williams images from his early days at Life magazine are up now on Filboid Studge's blog!

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Huckleberry Hound

From my sketchbook

A New Drawing

Virgil Partch "VIP" Paperback Covers