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Carousel 032: Cropping Panels
CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 032: Cropping Panels Among the flaws that most often mar the work of amateur cartoonists is poor cropping. That’s when the panel borders either hew…
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Maggie’s World 090: 1961
MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 090: 1961 In this 90th “Maggie’s World,” it seems appropriate to look at milestones. And hey! April 2021 is a pop culture anniversary…
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Carousel 031: Drawing What You See
CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 031: Drawing What You See Artists are often given the following advice: “Draw what you see, not what you THINK you see.” This may sound…
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Maggie’s World 089: Looking for Laughs
MAGGIES WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 089: Looking for Laughs One of our favorite forms of entertainment has been called “comics” for a long time, emerging from the 1700s…
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You Can Draw with Katie Cook 078: How to Draw a Valentine’s Day Friend!
MAKE A FRIEND FOR VALENTINE’S DAY You Can Draw with Katie Cook 078: How to Draw a Valentine’s Day Friend! Written by Published Updated
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Carousel 030: Preparing the Script
CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 030: Preparing the Script Welcome to my 30th Carousel column! This month marks three years of my columns here on Comic-Con’s Toucan blog, and I’m…
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Maggie’s World 088: Who Knew
MAGGIES WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 088: Who Knew Reading through Walt Kelly’s “Albert and Pogo” stories for Dell’s Animal Comics recently, I stumbled over one in #19 (February 1946) in…
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You Can Draw with Katie Cook 077: How to Draw 2020!
KATIE COOK LOOKS BACK FONDLY AT 2020 You Can Draw with Katie Cook 077: How to Draw 2020! Written by Published Updated
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Carousel 029: Composition
CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 029: Composition Aspiring comic book artists are often admonished to work on their perspective, their anatomy, and their storytelling, but I don’t often hear “composition”…
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Maggie’s World 087: A Robot Century
MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 087: A Robot Century When the play R.U.R. by Karl Čapek had its premiere on January 25, 1921, Rossum’s Universal Robots introduced the word “robot”…
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Carousel 028: Timing Your Efforts
CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 028: Timing Your Efforts I once read a book on drawing in which the author described, in detail, how to draw highly realistic figures. I…
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Maggie’s World 086: Maggie Anecdotage
MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 086: Maggie Anecdotage Now and then, I’ve been known to launch into a “that reminds me” anecdote—and people have occasionally responded with a…