What does an illustrator do?

 
 

It helps to have design skills too.

 
 
 
 

What does a cartoonist do?

 
 

Cartoonists are sequential storytellers.

 
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Tim Burton

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Jamie Hewlett

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Jhonen Vasquez

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Mary Blair

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Let’s Go to College

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Witch Knots - Web Comic / Self-Published Book

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March 3 - Music Video / Sequential Art Experiment

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Harvey Pelican Catalogue - Illustration / Graphic Art / Misc. Weirdness

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Teaching In-Person

Evidence of a whirlwind weekend in Rochester, NY. Big thanks to @dwworden and @chang_ri_la for inviting me out to talk about comics and careers. Other highlights included visiting my good pal @luckyfolktattoo, hanging out with comic icon Joe Kubert&r
New faces, chewed pencils, graph paper doodles, parking by the loading dock, recycling initiatives, Smartboard cables, 60 cent milk cartons, confusing artwork celebrating FedEx, and lots of drawing. Another month of school visits in the books th
It took 23 years but I finally got my book signed
Oh! You living things
I made this while thinking about one of my favorite abduction scenes in sci-fi. I loved John Christopher's whole Tripod Trilogy as a kid but nothing that came after left an impression like that first abduction at the farm house. I had the 1988 editio
We made a comic panel in our wall
My all-time favorite movie prop is the Grail Diary from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. When I started working on my next graphic novel - where two kids chase an ancient alchemical myth - I realized this was my chance to make a book prop of my ow