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Speedball Artist Set No. 5
This brief story takes place in the mid-1950s. A girl, age 10 or 11, whose mother teaches piano, gets a huge crush on her mother’s beautiful thirteen-year-old student. While waiting for her piano...
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My “Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies” Interview
“My Most Unforgettable Art Supply Moment” is a series of blog interviews by illustrator Lou Brooks with artists who have survived careers in the graphic arts. (That’s me in the above photo, circa...
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Today’s Gag
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Evolution of a “Gag” Idea
The above sketch is the first sloppy glimmer of a cartoon idea, one I thought worth developing. (Click images for larger views.) Note that in this early stage I’m already making edits to the caption....
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Return of the Moose
When Bob Weber, creator of the classic comic strip “Moose Miller” (re-titled “Moose & Molly” since 1998), visited Baltimore about ten years ago, he called and invited me to dine with him at the...
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Bob and Me and Kal
Characters and Caricatures Two cartoonists walk into a bar — No, wait . . . When two cartoonists, Bob Weber, Sr., (on the left) based in Westport, Connecticut — and Jim Sizemore (me), on the right,...
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Today’s Doodle
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Beach Doodle
By Jim Sizemore On August 26, 1981, I wrote a longish letter to my niece, with whom I’d been corresponding for some time. What follows is an edited draft of the short note in that letter about one of...
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Today’s Graphic
The FedEx logo is famous among graphic designers. It has won buckets of design awards and has been ranked by some experts as one of the best logo designs in the last 35 years—or as some claim—ever....
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Five-Minute Memoir
The Boys of Summer, 1954 By Jim Sizemore I’m in my bedroom, lights off. It’s my mother’s third-floor two-bedroom apartment on Linden Avenue, just two blocks south of North Avenue. Ernie Harwell’s...
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WPA Color, 1939-1943
Signs When my bother, Vernon Leroy (Lee) Sizemore, retired from the military, he earned his living as a sign painter, a skill he had picked up in vocational high school and sharpened by—among other...
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Today’s Gag
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Today’s Quotes
“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” “A drawing is always...
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A Creative Request
(This photograph of me is from the mid-1970's) My mother taught me to always “be nice,” but sometimes it ain’t easy. Below is my reply to a written request from a “friend,” someone I had only just met...
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Today’s Quote
“Sometimes laughter hurts, but humor and mockery are our only weapons.” Jean Cabu, 1938-2015 Cartoonist and co-founder of Charlie Hebdo (Click image for larger view.)
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Cartooning Tip #1
Click image to enlarge. This cartoon tip originally appeared in the January-February 2016 issue of The Cartoon!st, the newsletter of the National Cartoonists Society. All series images and texts are...
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Cartooning Tip #4
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Cartooning Tip #5
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Cartooning Tip #6
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