| | Artwork: Alec Lewellyn |
Cartoonists tend to be quiet on the outside, but deeply dramatic in their guts.
A great cartoonist is always a great dramatist, they frame the human condition and show us what it is, the work of one individual, staring down that stunningly blank white page and out of nothing ? everything! The bad and the beautiful, the villainous and the heroic, the real world and the dream world all conjured with the simplest of tools and a slim and neat dancin' line.
These lines form pictures and words, those things tell a story, and the story slowly sears the reader’s brain. It is perhaps the most personal form of visual communication, and has the potential to be one of the most subversive as well. Technique is important, but only in the service of soul. The range of styles and stories has become the hallmark of the School of
Visual Arts’ Cartooning and Illustration Departments. We hope you enjoy this latest collection, simply brimming with beautiful and “bad” (meaning very good) art work created by the brightest young comic artists we have seen in many years. Remember their names, because many of them will
be changing the future of this unique art form.
I would like to thank Keith Mayerson, David Mazzucchelli and Gary Panter. Their contributions to this project are immeasurable. We also thank President David Rhodes for his vision and support of this ongoing document of our students’ achievements.
Thomas Woodruff
Chair, BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department, 2008 |
