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Cartoonist Mark Bode interview

Cartoonist Mark Bode interview 05/27/2004 01:59 PM
Mark Bode is the son of 1970's cartoonist Vaughn Bode, best known for his Cheech Wizard comics that appeared in National Lampoon. Vaughn died in the '70s, and Mark has taken over his father's work. Mark can draw and write in a way that's almost indistinguishable from his father's work. In this interview he talks about his 30-years-in the-making book, The Lizard of Oz, to be released by Fantagraphics.

BB: I know that, given a cursory glance, your and Vaughn's styles are incredibly similar. I was wondering, though, if you tried to more closely mimic his style -- whether in the actual drawing or the storytelling and design aspects of the page -- consciously or not?

MB: Before I knew what was reality here on this planet, my father, when I was 4 or 5 years old, led me to believe his characters were real. He said Cheech lived up the hill by the Projects near where we lived in Syracuse, NY. And we used to visit his laboratory, which was an old sewer hole cover. But Cheech never came out. I said, "Dad, why doesn't he come out?" He replied, "He is busy balling broads or doin' important wizard stuff, son." Thus, as my imagination and drawing abilities developed, I found it easy to draw and live in that world he created. No effort, what so ever. Although I have many other styles at my disposal, I am most happy when I'm in his, or our, style ...

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Nike Loses To Internet Cartoonist

Nike Loses To Internet Cartoonist 12/30/2004 02:49 AM
CBS News Dec 30 2004 7:09AM GMT

"Doonesbury" cartoonist apologizes for
beheading strip

"Doonesbury" cartoonist apologizes for
beheading strip 05/23/2004 09:19 PM

1975 underground cartoonist button
series

1975 underground cartoonist button
series 07/12/2004 05:49 PM
In 1975, a bunch of underground cartoonists were asked to submit self-portraits for a button series. Denis Kitchen is selling the set of all 54 buttons for $195, or you can buy individual ones for $4.Link (Thanks, Gary!)

NEW YORK Cartoonist/graphic novelist
Will Eisner died last night

NEW YORK Cartoonist/graphic novelist
Will Eisner died last night 01/05/2005 03:39 AM
Editor & Publisher .. Will Eisner Dies At 87 .. passed away

editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_dis play.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000745535
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Dale Messick, Cartoonist Who Created
Brenda Starr, Dies at 98

Dale Messick, Cartoonist Who Created
Brenda Starr, Dies at 98 04/07/2005 05:28 PM
Dale Messick was a pioneering cartoonist who fought her way to the top of a man's profession by creating Brenda Starr.

"Rance" unmasked as
cartoonist/filmmaker/screenwriter Keith
Thomson?

"Rance" unmasked as
cartoonist/filmmaker/screenwriter Keith
Thomson? 06/01/2004 04:56 PM
David Emery, of About.com's Urban Legends and Folklore department, tells BoingBoing, "Wanted to let you know that Alex Boese of the Museum of Hoaxes may well have solved the Rance mystery with some good, old-fashioned Net detective work, or at any rate is damn close to solving it."

Here's a snip from the Museum of Hoaxes post, which -- true or not -- evidences some very thorough sleuthing indeed:

I think Rance is a cartoonist/filmmaker/screenwriter named Keith Thomson. Here's my reasoning. What immediately struck me about Rance's weblog was that it attracted a very high number of comments from very early on. Within two hours after Rance posted his first entry on December 29, 2003, four people had left comments on his site. Most weblogs, by contrast, struggle to get anyone to read them, let alone leave comments. So how was he attracting so many visitors to his site straight off the bat? What I discovered was that immediately after Rance posted his first entry on Dec. 29 at 4:49 EST, someone going by the screen name 'InvaderFromPluto' began posting messages about his weblog on various fan discussion groups. For instance, at 5:52, about one hour after Rance had posted his first entry, a message from InvaderFromPluto appears on Yahoo's thematthewperryplace message board. It reads:

i read slate reported a famous tv actor keeping a weblog under pseudonym "rance" at http://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/ it's hard to know if it is him, but it might be as it is funny and seems witty in his sort of way

Obviously Slate hadn't written anything about Rance's weblog. Rance's weblog, at that time, was only an hour old. So how did InvaderFromPluto know about Rance's weblog so quickly, and why was he so interested in promoting it? Perhaps InvaderFromPluto was Rance himself. Makes sense to me.

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Cartoonist and Animator Gene Deitch at
Egyptian Theatre in L.A. tonight!

Cartoonist and Animator Gene Deitch at
Egyptian Theatre in L.A. tonight! 02/10/2004 04:10 PM
Gene Deitch, the former art director for UPA (the cartoon studio that made Gerald McBoingBoing) and the illustrator for a 1940s jazz magazine called the Record Changer (see his book, The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove), and the father of underground cartoonist Kim Deitch, is going to be showing a bunch of his great old cartoons at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. See you there! Link

New York Times Cartoonist Ted Rall
Fantasizes About Murdering American
Soldiers In His Veterans Day Column On
Yahoo (***Warning: This Is An Absolutely
Vile Editorial***)

New York Times Cartoonist Ted Rall
Fantasizes About Murdering American
Soldiers In His Veterans Day Column On
Yahoo (***Warning: This Is An Absolutely
Vile Editorial***) 11/13/2003 07:46 AM
Read it if you dare .. WHY WE FIGHT

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/u clicktext/20031112/cm_ucru/whywefight
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