Fumetti & Cumuli
Greetings from Bizarro Studios North.
Our latest blog entry is up and available for your reading pleasure. This week, we did a series of comics exploring ways to look at word balloons and thought bubbles, also known as fumetti and cumuli.
I also answer a great question submitted by a reader, and encourage you to send in your own questions about Bizarro. If I have a good answer for any of them, I'll feature it on the blog. You can reply to this newsletter message, or email me at WaynoCartoons@gmail.com.
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The studio was busy again this week, and I drew cartoons about horses, a monarch, an artist, political operatives, a tattoo parlor, a classic blues musician, and a 1930s movie studio executive.
Looking Ahead, Looking Back
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The drawing is loosely based on a photo of JL "Jack" Warner, or Warner Brothers Studios. He'll show up on the funny pages in early August.
Our look into the past is a sketch card I drew in 2017, which complements our latest comics.
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Dan and I were attending the National Cartoonists Society's annual Reuben Awards weekend, that year. Part of the weekend included a public event with artists drawing and signing items for readers. I don't know who went home with this sketch card, but I'm glad I snapped a photo of it.
Now Playing
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We just rewatched the 1967 British "avant-garde social science fiction" television series, The Prisoner, starring the late Patrick McGoohan. I've viewed this paranoid classic many times over the years, and still find new things to discover. The early episodes are spooky, unnerving, and uniformly gripping. The later ones get weirder and more experimental, with wild shifts in style and direction.
In recent years, due to mild hearing loss and tinnitus, I usually watch with subtitles or closed captions, particularly for British productions, where the language can be quite different from American English. While watching The Prisoner, I noted that the captioning under the title sequence was different in every episode, although the music and visuals were identical. The descriptions went from Upbeat Music to Suspenseful Music to Jazzy Theme, and beyond. It made me wonder if different individuals wrote the captions, or one person changed them to keep from being bored.
I watched the series on the Kanopy streaming platform, a free service available to anyone with a library card in most parts of the country. They have a wide selection of new and old films and TV series, many of which aren't available on the big three platforms.
That's the latest from Hollywood Gardens, PA. Thanks, as always, for your readership and support. You're the reason we make these funny pictures.
Take care and be well.
Best wishes from your cartoonist,
Wayno
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