Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. Pictured is a Sunday color page of the comic strip Mark Trail. Mark Trail is a daily Newspaper Comic strip created by the American Cartoonist Ed Dodd.

A cartoonist or comic strip creator is a person that specializes in drawing cartoons. The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. The term can also be applied to those who produce comic books, manga, editorial cartoons, comic strips. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration or Comic strip containing a political or Social message that usually A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist A person working in animated cartoons is also commonly referred to as an animator. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames An animator is an Artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called Animation when rapidly displayed

Process

A cartoonist traditionally sketches the picture out roughly in pencil first, before going over the sketches in black ink, using either brush Kenisha's or metal nibbed pens. A pen (Latin pinna, feather is a Writing instrument used to apply Ink to a surface usually Paper. Cartoonists whose work is intended for online publication increasingly work in digital media. Cartooning is used in animated features, tv shows, and movies.

History

Comic strips have traditionally been associated with main-stream newspapers. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Such strips are distributed by syndicates such as the Universal Press Syndicate or the King Features syndicate. Print syndication is a form of syndication in which News articles columns, or Comic strips are made available to Newspapers, Magazines Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company is the world's largest independent syndicate and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and King Features Syndicate, a Print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 Comic strips newspaper columns, The Sunday cartoon strips, which are colored, often go to a coloring company such as American Color before they are published. In Comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black and white line art Comic strips can also be collected in books. Some comic strip creators publish in the alternative press or on the internet. Alternative Press (or commonly referred to on the website and in the magazine as AP) is an American music magazine based in Cleveland Ohio which primarily The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Comic-strip artists may also sometimes work in book-length form, creating graphic novels. A One of Walt Disney's most famous sketches was titled "Alice In Wonderland". This was turned into an extremely successful movie, and play.

Large comic book publishers (such as Marvel or DC) utilize teams of cartoonists to produce the art (typically separating pencil work, inking, and lettering while the color is added digitally by colorists). Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company In Comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black and white line art When a consistent artistic style is wanted among different cartoonists (such as Archie Comics), character model sheets may be used as reference. Archie Comics is an American Comic book publisher known for its many series featuring the fictional teenage Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper In Animation, a model sheet is a document used to help standardize the appearance poses and gestures of an animated character

Calum MacKenzie in his preface to the exhibition catalogue The Scottish Cartoonists published by the Glasgow Print Studio Gallery (1979) defined the selection criteria as being "the difference between a cartoonist and an illustrator was the same as the difference between a comedian and a comedy actor- the former both deliver their own lines and take full responsibility for them, the latter could always hide behind the fact that it was not his entire creation. "

Genre

Cartoons refer commonly to comics, a form of graphic entertainment in a juxtaposed sequential style. A comic is based of a picture and words, often used inside word bubbles. Also, the words can be under the panel, usually for single panel cartoons such as Bil Keane's Family Circus. The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle) is a syndicated Comic strip created and written by cartoonist Bil Keane and inked/colored

Comics can be specified in genres: Editorial (such as Doonesbury by Garry Treadeau), Single-Panel (such as The Far Side by Gary Larson), Gag-a-day (such as Peanuts by Charles M. Doonesbury is a Comic strip by G B Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters of different ages professions The Far Side is a popular one-panel syndicated comic created by Gary Larson. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Schulz), Adventure (such as Superman by Various) and Semi-Political (such as Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis). Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Comics found in newspapers, on Sundays in color, but in some newspapers, all comics are colors of the rainbow. They are also collected in books.

See also

• mangaka
• Comic book creator
• List of cartoonists
• Webcomic
• Women in comics