Jesse Hamm

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 033: J.P. LEON: An Appreciation It is with a heavy heart that we present the last blog post from Jesse Hamm. It is a testament…

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…

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…

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…

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”…

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…

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 026: Figure-Ground One of the challenges of drawing comics is that you have to make figures appear to be separate from the environments behind them.…

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 025: Close Read: Uncanny X-Men Annual #11 Alan Davis has long been admired by other artists for his appealing draftsmanship and his command of action,…

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 024: Drawing Animals Aspiring cartoonists are always advised to study human anatomy, but animal anatomy often goes unmentioned. This may be because most comics today…

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 023: Inking Tips Once upon a time, inking comics was necessary because comics were printed on newsprint, and media like pencils, pastels, or paint didn’t…

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 022: Mort Drucker: An Appreciation On Thursday, April 9, we lost cartoonist Mort Drucker, age 91. Drucker was a master of caricature—some would say THE master—who spent…

CAROUSEL BY JESSE HAMM Carousel 021: Drawing vs. Cartooning Read any collection of single-panel cartoons, in which the cartoons are organized from the early 20th century to the present, and…