{"id":17,"date":"2009-06-16T01:37:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T08:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2009-06-16T01:37:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T08:37:49","slug":"mocca-part-two-cartooning-fs-and-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/mocca-part-two-cartooning-fs-and-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"MoCCA Part Two: Cartooning, FS, and GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

At MoCCA<\/acronym> Fest 2009 I started thinking about cartooning as a craft distinct from comics that I don’t practice that much. I’ve only developed a couple of ways of drawing cartoon faces that I slightly modify and draw over and over again. Scratch that, actually I just have one:<\/p>\n

Mark’s face.<\/p>\n

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It’s pretty simple, really. Rudimentary, actually: one straight line, one Z, and then some wiggly lines for hair, beard, and so on.<\/p>\n

I think that it was flipping through the Sam’s Strip<\/a> book and looking at all of Jerry Dumas’ really elegant cartoons, but for whatever reason, I came to the conclusion that, perhaps, one straight line, one Z, and at least nine wiggly lines just wasn’t a true expression of cartooning expertise.<\/p>\n

So, I began drawing cartoons of Frank Santoro and Gary Panter while I was waiting for their panel at MoCCA to start (for a great overview of that panel, be sure to check out this squally showers post<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Here are my two favorite likenesses:<\/p>\n

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(Paraphrased quotation from Gary Panter added later, after the panel had started. Another awesome thing that he said: “The future will be like terminator except the robots will look slick like tennis shoes.”<\/p>\n

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via hypebeast<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyways I think that I’m gonna spend some time developing my cartooning chops. Looking at Sam’s Strip also got me thinking about doing a weekly comic harking back to the pure idea behind the daily newspaper strip:<\/p>\n

Six panels where the same thing happens over and over again in different ways. I’ve always wanted to do a strip like this but I’ve always been stalled by what is, for me, the core of it all: the repeated action.<\/p>\n

I tried it out with my Daily Texan strip, “Fists.” The idea was that someone would get hit by a gloved fist on a stick every comic, an idea that owes its existence to Ignatz’s brick.<\/p>\n

Of course, nothing about that comic ended up being standardized except for its iconography, which I still like and want to bring back some day:<\/p>\n

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Like the materials-based sculptures and performances that I used to do, this iconography is something that I came up with back before I got so heavily influenced by Fort Thunder. So many ideas, so little time. We’ll see how much of this comes to fruition, I’ve got a looooong to-do list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At MoCCA Fest 2009 I started thinking about cartooning as a craft distinct from comics that I don’t practice that much. I’ve only developed a couple of ways of drawing cartoon faces that I slightly modify and draw over and over again. Scratch that, actually I just have one: Mark’s face. It’s pretty simple, really. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,227,247,261,315,456,569,643,644],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fantagraphics","tag-fists","tag-frank-santoro","tag-gary-panter","tag-ignatz","tag-mocca-fest-2009","tag-sams-strip","tag-tennis-shoes","tag-terminator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}