Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

A short walk in the forest with Montreal comic book artist and animator, Diane Obomsawin. Obomsawin is also author of the wonderful, Kaspar, by Drawn & Quarterly.

Also, if you’re not already convinced – Diane Obomsawin wins.

And Kaspar at Book By Its Cover.

Bizarro creator and comic artist Dan Piraro announces today his new…

…a Bizarro iPhone app! Boy, am I excited about it! I’ve been working for months with some very cool app designers here in NYC and we’ve come up with a new innovation in the comics-for-phones field!

Previously, with other comics apps, you could only buy a given number of cartoons and cram them into your phone and when you’d seen them all, that was that. Could take you ten minutes, could take you ten years.

With the Bizarro app, a NEW COMIC is added EVERY DAY! (The same comic that appears in newspapers.) PLUS, at any given time there is a YEAR’S ARCHIVE of comics that can be accessed super easy and fast from a handy-dandy calendar page.

Melbourne illustrator Melanie Matthews has given herself quite the challenge for the year: 365 cartoons – 1 a day for the entire year. She kicked things off with this awesome tiger, presumably because it is the year of the tiger on the Chinese calendar.

Although, it is quite possible that she just loves tigers, as her portfolio is full of them! And that’s a good great thing.

Each one is funnier than the before it. Depending on what order you read them in. No, I’m kidding, they’re all funny no matter where you start. Go, laugh. And thank you Mr Toby Lunchbreath… if that is indeed your REAL name! :)

CARzy is a brand new blog devoted to early hotrod cartoons. Nelson Dewey writes,

Does CARtoons magazine ring a bell? How about
Hot Rod Cartoons?
CYCLEtoons?
SURFtoons?
(Clue: they’re comic books, published in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. There was even one titled SKItoons!)
I’m Nelson Dewey, one of the cartoonists that contributed to them — nearly 2000 pages of cartoons: multi-page stories, gags and spreads!

Nelson is going to slowly post them. As a historian, he’s caught my interest with this little note:

As you read, please remember — this was done 37 years ago! Styles have changed. Humor has changed! I have changed! (Maybe I’ll get lucky here, and all these things will have somehow come back into style.)

Well, let’s see!

This proportionately correct real world Charlie Brown by Tim O’Brien is pretty cool. (via Box Brown).

It reminded me of Pixeloo’s “Untooned” drawings like his Homer Simpson:

He’s also done Jessica Rabbit, Super Mario, and Stewie.

Check out this collection of scans of Basil Wolverton’s The Culture Corner, a series of silly how-to comics originally published in Whiz Comics during the late 40s and early 50s. The site is offering up the scans individually, as a PDF, and as .CBZ files.

A poster on a Russian message board has shared an interesting collection of anti-Nazi political cartoons.

The long wait is finally over, folks! Famous and infamous cartoonist Revilo has created another hilarious collection of cartoons! Funny Business: A Collection of Hard Working Cartoons is Revilo’s unique perspective on the crazy corporate world.

And if that news wasn’t enough to rock your world, Revilo has a new web site full of lots of cartoons and even some quirky animation! Speaking personally, nothing cheers me up more than staring for hours at a happy dancing hot dog!

Gorgeous ink and watercolour illustrations and drawings by John Cuneo. Beautiful stuff. I love anyone whose final work has the spontaneity and looseness of a rough sketchbook. The dude can draw. (The section of his site with personal work may be a bit not-safe-for-work, so be warned.)