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• Manifesto Manifesto

  • From: xspencer
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    Another sagacious and intrinsic artist, that was born on the same day as Larry April 15, was Leonardo Di Vinci. They both possess an altruistic and empirical sense that is seen through their art and inventive mind. Like Leonardo Di Vinci, Larry has an affinity for invention. Larry is a man of unquenchable curiosity and imagination. Like his golf putting green in a suitcase, numerological lottery book, and other prototypical inventions has blazed a trail. He is also known for his technological ingenuity, developing mechanical drawings and blueprints.
    Today Larry is CEO of Mouse paintings and More, a graphic design company, which does logos, book covers, CD covers, Banners, Business cards, and Portraits. Larry also is a Designer of Web Pages and Marketing concepts. Mr. Spencer is director of all visual and graphic communication. Larry is a creative designer of over 500 works of art. Formulates design concepts from selected locations and settings. Directed and coordinated set designs, and construction of material. Prepared notes and instruction for workers, and reviewed final layouts, and improvements for the newspaper layout. Larry prepared illustrations or rough sketches of material according to instructions of his clients. As working as an illustrator, he studied amount and length of classified ads to plan presentation of material. Arranged layouts based on available space, with knowledge of layout principles, and esthetic design concepts.
    As a cartoonist Larry drew cartoons for publications to amuse readers, by interpreting news events, and advertisements. As an illustrator he developed personal ideas and read written material to develop ideas from concept and context. Also discussed ideas with his editor or publishers and representatives, for submission and approval. Accomplished over 500 published illustrations.
    The world may not be ready for Larry’s dynamic, imaginative ideas, but the promise of innovation in his art is worth every the wait. Enjoy…..

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• HAPPY NEW YEAR WORLD! HAPPY NEW YEAR WORLD!

  • From: JimBrenneman
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    I hope everyone has a Safe and Happy New Year! Think good thoughts, do good deeds and try not to be as quick as you may have been in the past to judge or form opinions about those you fear or know little about. Learn more about everything and then question everything you know, never give up on yourself or your dreams despite what those around you might say or do, think for yourself and promote peace. Change is rarely easy and there is a lot coming so as long as you stay grounded and keep your sense of who you are, surround yourself with people who love and challenge you and remember to laugh 2012 will not turn out to be the end but rather a begining. With that said I'm not sure what it begins but after all I'm a Cartoonist I don't have all the answers. Be safe and keep the faith! Whatever yours may be.

  • 2 years ago
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• This Holiday, GIVE ART! (4 of This Holiday, GIVE ART! (4 of 4)

  • From: FearNoART
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    Its the fourth and final installment of Fear No ART's, "This Holiday, GIVE ART!" blog.  I am counting down the last days before 2012 by Facebooking one art suggestion a day and consolidating these suggestions into blogs of 11 each.  This particular blog focuses on the gifts one might give to oneself.

    This list is by no means exhaustive, so don’t hesitate to buy the painting that you think your significant other will like that is hanging in your favorite  artist’s studio, café, or gallery down the block.  And, of course, art doesn’t begin and end with paintings, so I branch out here and offer a plethora of ideas, all with the general sentiment of This Holiday, GIVE ART!

    1. A cab driver knows the heart and soul of a city.  Reminiscent of Nelson Algren, cab driver and artist, Dmitry Samarov, tells of tales of the man on the street, the ordinary man living both an ordinary and an un-ordinary life, all from the inside of his taxi.  Of equal delight and fascination are Samarov's drawings that accompany every story.  This is the sort of book that mandates that you buy two copies.  You have to keep one for yourself. Buy directly from the author/artist's Facebook page and save 30%!

    2.  I hate to drive. Yet, somehow, I long to be around the trucks in John Himmelfarb’s paintings and prints.  There is joy and energy in them. There is comedy and life.  These are 1940’s vehicles, pummeling along the road, often with heaps of junk. These classic shapes we can all recognize and relate to from our childhood toys and the paintings carry with them an animated good feeling of what is fulfilled in a hard day’s work.  Truly a treat for yourself this holiday, even if you have to think lay-away.

    3.  I own several of Jay Strommen’s ceramic pieces and each and every one, like all of his work, has a zen quality that makes me happy to be around it.  Jay is a painter and photographer; but, he is best known for his ceramics and the peacefulness they carry. Dedicated to the discipline of creating harmonious vessels as well as sculptural work, Jay sometimes includes melted shards of glass in the bottom of his works, giving an even more reflective quality.  Jay's pieces embody thoughtfulness. Give one of Jay’s pieces and the recipient knows you love them.

    4.  Can’t wait for baseball despite the fact that we already know the outcome of the Cubs upcoming season? Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year is an anthology chronicling the longest losing streak in sports history. Acclaimed authors such as Scott Simon, James Finn Garner, and Sara Paretsky take their places besides acclaimed fans like Ronnie Woo Woo Wickers, Lin Brehmer and Pat Brickhouse. The unique blend of voices, ranging from best-selling authors to long-time beer venders, explore the relationship these loyal fans have to their dubious team.  Edited by Chicago Literary Awards Hall of Fame creator, Don Evans.

    5.  Tired of your sad cubicle?  Need more creativity in your life? Painter Danielle Klinenberg has developed and produced elaborate, exciting art-making programs like drop-in studios for Art Chicago and Lollapalooza and participatory installations for The Chicago Humanities Festival and the Notebaert Nature Museum. "A Muse" is her production company that has a Pop-up Shop and Art Studio, open through December 30, at LoveLeaf Press, 1211 N Wood, where everyone is invited to ‘Make Art with A Muse’.  Buy gift cards in a one-on-one or small group art-making experience, create an art-making event of any scale, or simply drop-by to join in creative play or consult with A Muse.

    6. Laughter is really the only medicine as far as I am concerned.  This why I get to improv comedienne Susan Messing’s show, Messing with a Friend at The Annoyance Theatre as much as I can.   This veteran teacher and improviser is sought after around the country for her crafty comedy and take-no-prisoners improv play.  See her live. Its twisted chicken soup for the twisted soul. Go and get twisted.

    7. Dreams and alchemy penetrate artist/author Mary Osborne's book of mystic fiction in Nonna’s Book of  Mysteries. Set in Renaissance Florence, Osborne’s young character Emilia turns to the science of alchemy to aid her in fulfilling her dream of becoming a painter, an unheard of option for a girl in the 1500s.  Rich and magical, it is no wonder that Nonna’s Book of Mysteries won the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year award and nominations for the Independent Book Publisher's Association Best New Fiction and the American Library Association's 2011 Amelia Bloomer award. This book is a delight and a treasure.

    8. Michael O’Briant’s strong technique shapes his paintings while the artist allows enough room to let feeling and interpretation breathe.  Evoking emotion and well as a sense of the passing of time, O'Briant’s paintings invite the viewer to relish in the space he creates. I have taken note of this dedicated and inspired painter.  One of his paintings could be just the right gift to yourself in 2012.

    9. Feel Like some fantasy?  Then get your tix for one of the most exciting collaborations of 2012.  Playwright Jessica Thebus and Redmoon artistic director, Frank Maugeri, team up for an other-worldly retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest with A Feast, an Intimate Tempest.  You can expect puppets, animation, original music and brilliant writing in this sure-to-be hypnotic rendition at Chicago Shakes.

    10.  You might as well laugh your way into the new year with a cartoon from New Yorker cartoonist, Pat Byrnes.  You can buy some of his classics (the snowman, Carl, kills me!) from the cartoon bank or one of his books on his site to keep you smiling all through 2012.

    11.  Chicago’s newest and most creative arts show, The Dinner Party, is a monthly live show at the Mayne Stage Theatre. Get your tix for this artist round-table discussion over wine and dinner, made by a different celebrity chef every month.  Can’t make The Diner Party the last Monday of every month?  The Dinner Party streams live on www.fearnoart.tv so you can watch on-line and tweet in!  It’s the hottest new thing for 2012 and you will want to be a part of it! 

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• Fear No ART Bloopers & Outtake Fear No ART Bloopers & Outtakes

  • From: FearNoART
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    We've had some fun shoots over the years with more than a few hiccups on Fear No ART. Enjoy this video of all the goofs, blunders, mess ups and good times that usually are edited out.

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• Getting ready to paint Getting ready to paint

  • From: scottjones
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    This is how I prepare to paint because I have some really important stuff in art to get done

    (I know this cartoonist might be old news,

  • 2 years ago
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• New Yorker Cartoonist, Pat Byr New Yorker Cartoonist, Pat Byrnes

  • From: FearNoART
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    As a cartoonist, one can't aspire any higher than The New Yorker.  So it was very exciting to sit down for Fear No ART with New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes in his home studio.   In the video below, Pat maps out the critical elements in his cartoons and his routine with The New Yorker.   He also explains the components necessary for a good cartoon and how being a cartoonist is a calling, not something one can really plan on becoming.
    
    Pat keeps a small orange notebook on him at all times and jots down idea after idea after idea.  Oddly, most successful cartoons don't come from life playing out perfectly in front of him, but rather twists and variations of scenarios.
    
    In addition to his cartoons and books, Pat is also working on an app called, "Smurks" which maps out the range of human emotion and which psychologists are using to help autistic patients express themselves.   This app has been a very exciting breakthrough and officially makes this stay-at-home Dad one of the busiest artists around.

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  • 2 years ago
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• New Yorker Cartoonist, Pat Byr New Yorker Cartoonist, Pat Byrnes

  • From: FearNoART
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    Join host Elysabeth Alfano of Fear No ART and go behind the scenes into the studio of New Yorker Cartoonist, Pat Byrnes.

  • 2 years ago
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• September 11 2001 September 11 2001

  • From: JimBrenneman
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    In the aftermath of the attacks I drew this to depict how everyone shared in the same response. I didn't want to attempt to make fun of the horrors that happened that day out of respect and good taste so I chose not to draw what I had seen but rather how it affected all of us equally. I'm a Cartoonist and typically try to find the humor in everything whether it's sarcastic or just silly and like a lot of people it took a while to regain my balance. My style has changed over the years but rather than post

  • 2 years ago
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• JimBrenneman

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• Re: Cartoonists Remember Sept. Re: Cartoonists Remember Sept. 11

  • From: Cheryl
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    John, I will leave it to you to decide if what you posted is appropriate and respectful or not.

    I feel bad for you that you have such a narrow view of what a cartoonist does. I hope that view will widen someday.

     

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• charod

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• jovesper

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• Beyond Fame & Fortune what dri Beyond Fame & Fortune what drives YOU to produce your artwork? Would you still pursue to create

  • From: nsuzzanneform
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    I have worked for hire as an artist and illustrator, cartoonist most of my adult life. I don't feel like I really enjoyd the process until I was "under employed" for several years. Then I had the opportunity to use my creative energy experimenting in a ways that I found enjoyable and more expressive of my true interests and instincts.

  • 2 years ago
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• John Lennon Versus Al Capp John Lennon Versus Al Capp

  • From: ovationtv
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    The year: 1969. Headlines blare war and civil unrest while John Lennon and Yoko Ono are in love. The eccentric rock 'n' roll couple has just gotten married, and more than happy to be together, they want to change the world. Lying in a hotel bed surrounded by journalists they announced their mission for peace and invited the rest of the world to symbolically climb into bed with them and share their dream. 

    This clip highlights the historic conflict between John and Yoko and conservative cartoonist Al Capp. For air times for John and Yoko's Year of Peace check out the program page!

  • 2 years ago
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• tfoxart

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• Re: critique this please Re: critique this please

  • From: Former member
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    this is from a copyright blog:

    Warhol's art has triggered some lawsuits. 

    Patricia Caulfield, the photographer whose work was used as the basis of Warhol's flower prints (above) sued in November 1966 and settled for cash and artwork. Warhol's 1964 work, 16 Jackies, was the  3 years ago
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• He Loved Nazi Stuff #6 He Loved Nazi Stuff #6

  • From: crenshawa
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    (Journey in Photography Blog #6)

    “It’s about time you got serious about something,” was Mom’s comment about my switch to journalism and photography.

    Academics became my passion. Mike was thrilled none of my weird friends came to visit and Sylvia just slept. Writing was becoming enjoyable and photography was just plain fun. I was definitely hooked.

    Weird can be a relative thing because I thought business majors were boring.  Excitement to them was hunching over a spreadsheet for hours on end. Yes, my friends were different and I loved them for it. One of favorite pals in journalism loved Nazi regalia.

    Jim Marrs was his name and he still is the most talented editorial cartoonist I’ve ever seen although he is better known for his writing. His hobby was Nazi memorabilia. He wasn’t enthralled with their beliefs or racial bigotry but he loved their stuff. He had a closet full of helmets, uniforms and flags that only his closest friends got to see, although I do remember him wearing the distinctive combat helmet to class one day.

    Jim has had a successful and award winning journalism career with three Southwest newspapers and has published several best selling books. True to his nature, he writes about “fringe” topics like 9/11, Area 51, UFOs, conspiracies in general, and the Tri-Lateral Commission in particular. He wrote the book Crossfire which became the basis for Oliver Stone’s controversial movie JFK. He has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, The Discovery Channel, TLC, The History Channel, This Morning America^[Geraldo, The Montel Williams Show, Today, TechTV,  and Larry King. If the subject is ‘beyond the realm of traditional thinking,” Jim Marrs is probably thinking about it.

    Once Sunday evening, Jim, Mike and I – while consuming a case of beer – attended a downtown movie and decided upon a prank. “Let’s put the lifeguard stand on top of the two story journalism building.” You see, well-oiled creativity at work.

    Fueled by Lone Star and creativity, we, somehow, craned the bulky wooden stand up the wall to the roof of the adjoining building.

    No one in authority knew who did it until years later we revealed our tale at a reunion bragging session.

    Last year I took, the long retired,  Barbara Colegrove to a premier of a documentary Marrs was involved with concerning 9/11 at a neighborhood boutique theater in east Dallas. Jim was sitting at a table in front, wearing his trademark fedora, and signing books for a group of fans. The theater crowd was rowdy and eclectic.

    I guess I inherited Jim’s interest in conspiracy because the documentary was full of it and I was enthralled, but the feisty crowd finally got the best of Barbara and we left early.

    Jim Marrs was then and still is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met.  He was the first, of many, of my peers who could take very little and make it into something totally his own. He was creative.

    Cragg Hines became the White House correspondent and national political columnist for the Houston Chronicle and gave Marrs a run for his money on many occasions.

    We shared an office space with several other students putting out the campus yearbook and weekly newspaper. With Marrs creating off the wall political and social cartoons mixed with Cragg’s incredibly dry wit, I was the wallflower of the group. They became my creative muses.

    Hines has what has been described as an acerbic writing style and also being able to absorb lots of information and quickly writing as if he were simply talking to you. He could type a lot faster than I could think or talk. I once tagged along with Cragg and we both applied for a position with the Associated Press.

    Part of the process included them giving us a news prompt, then we would write a news story about it. Cragg had finished typing his before I’d finished reading the prompt. I was clearly out of my league.

    Cragg and I had known each other since we were youngsters at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas. His dad was building supervisor of the rapidly growing church in University Park, while Cragg, his brother Tom and I attended Sunday school classes together for most of our growing up years prior to college. Since then, Cragg and I had lost touch only to reconnect in the UNT journalism department.

    He has been retired since 2006 but is working on an international cooking book as only Cragg could probably write.

    My talent as a photographer grew by leaps and bounds with my writing skills lagging but coming in a close second. I still learned by making mistakes but fortunately still learned. In fact, that’s still my preferred way of acquiring a new skill.

    Eventually, I became good friends with Smitty. It’s hard for a teacher not to like a student who enjoyed what he taught as much as I did. He was working on his Masters Degree while teaching so his teaching, working as a news service photographer, and attending school in Commerce kept him pretty busy.

    Smitty (his real name was Orrin Smith Kiker, Jr) was an accomplished photographer having been published in Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and widely through local and regional publications. His creds were obvious.

    The darkroom was full one afternoon and he offered me his private (air conditioned) darkroom to print my assignments. I felt privileged because students were not allowed in Smitty’s personal darkroom.

    It was organized, clean and had new equipment. More importantly, it was comfortable and cool. It was my first professional darkroom.

    Instead of the 25 sheet-packs of enlarging paper that students used, he had a large box of 500 sheets of something called polycontrast paper. I was in heaven.

    I made my first print. Slipped it into the developer for the proscribed 90 seconds. Slid it into the stop bath for 15 seconds, the transferred it to the stop bath to fix the image on the paper. Generally, it should stay in the fixer for 30 minutes but you could look at it under white light after a minute or so. So I flipped on the overhead light to study my first test print in a “real” darkroom.

    It looked pretty good, so I turned toward the light switch and noticed, to my shock, that I had left the lid off Smitty’s giant box of  (white light sensitive) enlarging paper. I knew, because Smitty had taught us, that white light would fog or ruin your paper.

    I was devastated, but I still had to tell him. I considered excuses, but there was none. My stupid mistake became a legend around the photography department for years.

    My first wife, Suzie, was the journalism dean’s secretary and also a fellow journalist. I had asked her roommate for a date, but she was busy, so I asked out Suzie.

    In the midst of learning journalism and photography, counting change at Dr. Pepper and attending monthly Marine Corps Reserve meetings, Suzie and I dated, fell in love and got married.

    My life had gotten very serious, indeed. And the timing was right.

    In the 60s, North Texas State University was a commuter college with almost 12,000 students. Today it’s called UNT (University of North Texas) with over 40,000 students. I was very lucky to have landed in this relatively small department, found several great friends, instructed by three inspirational professors, fallen in love, got married, and found a profession.

    Life was good and graduation was only three credit hours away.

    Then I saw the ad in the newspaper.

     

     

     

     

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• mk7644

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• The International Cartoonist C The International Cartoonist Conspiracy

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• MJ NFP Cartoonist MJ NFP Cartoonist

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