Since I didn't quite get my #StandWithAnn cartoon posted here before midnight Sunday night, I've delayed posting This Week's Sneak Peek until Tuesday.
When I read the AAEC’s call for cartoonists to post “finished” versions of Ann Telaes’s rough sketch, I took it to mean a call to put forth basically the same cartoon. I see, however, that many of my fellow ink- and pixel-slingers have taken the core concept of her cartoon and taken it in novel and creative ways.
My own was pretty rough — I didn’t spend as much time as I normally would tweaking caricatures and varying the weight of line. And the only substantive variation I made on Telnaes’s concept was replacing the plutocrats’ money bags with their heads. (Which Dave Whamond also did.)
Oh, and I added Elon Musk.
A few cartoonists mimicked Telnaes’s style, and good for them. I didn’t try that approach, and I’m not confident that I could pull it off. Her work has such a wonderful fluidity and animation to it — even in still images.
More on mimicry later.
Anyway, back to the cartoons in support of Ann Telnaes: At some point, once this #StandWithAnn thing has played out, someone is going to post a collection of the good, the bad, and the ugly of it all. I’m sure I’ll post a link to it when it happens.
P.S.: Here’s that link. https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/07/dozens-of-cartoonists-so-far-hashtag-stand-with-ann-telnaes/
No comments:
Post a Comment