Looking at cartoonists like Addams, Arno and Ketcham and the amount of mastery in draftsmanship, cartooning, compositions AND gag writing is just ridiculous. Lots of great cartoonists now but few who have this level of mastery at ALL levels.



Bill Williams drew a great running pose Going down a John Stanley rabbit hole and discovered Nill Williams there in Dunc & Loo

here's where i do all the real thinking. Blocked in the shapes, shadows and now is when i carve away or add stuff that no one will notice. How much info needed to define trees, face, gesture, etc....it's a silly thing but my favorite part https://t.co/UrNTBhnmi2

I will jump at any opportunity to draw panels like this-stark blacks against thin lines makes me happy



Take a Toppi Break with me won't you? Master of texture, design, use of negative space and scale.

Today's inspiration Rodolfo Damaggio's Captain America Storyboards

Some Rodolfo Damaggio to end your week right

As comics get more "widescreen" I've really come to appreciate the sweet, skinny, vertical panels of Miller's DD

we do not spend enough time gushing over how great John Bogdanove is. Great Cartooning skills, amazing draftsmanship and gestures. From a new mutants annual and X-terminators

Kurtzman. I want comics to be colored like this again

Urasawa's celebrity portraits are the best

my favorite Neal Adams stuff was his comic strip work...what a legend

Toth famously said " Strip it down to the essentials and Draw the hell out of what's left". Calling something "simple" because of a lack of (over)rendering implies that less lines = less work. Here's Toth keeping it Simple

Little Breakdowns of the "hellboy style" made by @TadStones for the Hellboy animated shows to capture the @artofmmignola magic. So great https://t.co/wiUceHtiKC

Let's spend Monday gushing over Barry Windsor-Smith, shall we? This is the closest we will get to seeing how Michelangelo would've drawn comics. Classic draftsmanship and beautiful storytelling

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