Comments on: Now Then!

Now Then!

Robot Johnny — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:01:30 -0800

Now Then! What did professional comic artists draw like when they were 12 years old, you ask? The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art takes a look at 25 artists... now and then.

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:24:32 -0800

Excellent. Reminds me when I spent my days as a kid drawing cartoons and cell animations (complete with painted backgrounds and transparent overlays.)

By: May Kasahara

May Kasahara — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:29:08 -0800

That's really cool! With some of the "then" ones, you can even see a hint of their future style (well, the Gary Baseman and Charles Burns ones, at least).

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:33:03 -0800

Lovely. I really, really like the Then one for Kirsten Ulve. The sense of colour is simply spectacular.

By: greasy_skillet

greasy_skillet — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:38:19 -0800

Yes! Great stuff! Thanks for the link.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:16:56 -0800

Hee! I work with Bob Staake all the time. Now I have something to tease him about. Thanks!!!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:51:11 -0800

Huh, slipknot was around in 1986?

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:17:11 -0800

Excellent, Robot Johnny - I really enjoyed this - thanks!

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:39:51 -0800

Really cool link. I thought this one was rather disturbing and uh... phallic?, in a fun kind of way. Esp. when compared to the 'now'.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:13:11 -0800

I was disappointed that I didn't recognize any of the artists. Nothing from the span between Kirby and Liefeld, and certainly no name brand comic strips.

By: sluggo

sluggo — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:12:34 -0800

Eideteker, these artists are name brand - Charles Burns, Roz Chast, Tony Millionaire, and Gary Baseman are very well known (not to slight the rest of the artists involved). I love Kirby as much as the next true believer (but Liefeld? BLECCHH!), but comics are about a lot more than superheroes these days, and it would do you good to branch out.

By: Songdog

Songdog — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:53:52 -0800

I love this!

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:47:37 -0800

From the FPP: ... now and then. Wow, I had no idea that Gary Baseman grew up as Roz Chast. Fascinating. No really, this is good stuff. Thanks, RJ.

By: kavasa

kavasa — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:12:47 -0800

Oh man! There's even a guy with a drawing of his d&d character! Great stuff, thanks.

By: amarynth

amarynth — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:37:32 -0800

Robot Johnny, you post really good stuff.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:20:55 -0800

sluggo: I didn't say I liked Liefeld, I just said I'd recognize it. Between Kirby and Liefeld there was about a 30-year period of artists (great and mediocre) working on comic books. None of them are there (again, that I recognize). And no name brand comic strips, either; I don't see Garry Trudeau or Berke Breathed or Cathy Guswhateverhernameis. Name brand meaning my grandma has heard of them (Grandmas being universally accepted as a statistically representative audience). In all seriousness, how would you suggest I go about branching out? Other than by RTFA (which I did) and storing the names away for next time I hear them mentioned? I didn't know about them and now I do. But I'm still disappointed in the selection of artists on the site (no slight to Robot Johnny). Am I not hanging out at the right clubs, buying the right magazines, reading the right blogs? How do I make it so these very well known artists are known to me? Because you telling me they're well-known doesn't mean I know who they are, and in my comment I expressed my dismay that I didn't know who they were.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:38:26 -0800

Eideteker -- this other post from today may be a good place to start

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:47:26 -0800

Robot Johnny: Saw that, and headed back to this thread to check for comments. Thanks!

By: safetyfork

safetyfork — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:04:44 -0800

Cool. Thanks!