Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

Medical Lingo


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JIM Unger [Vedio Here]


Jim UngerJim Unger, creator of the very popular c
omic panel "Herman" was not only brilliant but a guy willing to go the extra mile for his fans.

Many years ago I wrote Mr. Unger to express my great pleasure in reading his comic feature. I could always count on getting a chuckle and often a big laugh out of his zany sense of humor. He, in turn, was very kind to send me an ori
ginal "Herman" which I now proudly display on my studio wall. It cost him over $3.00 to mail it to me as he was, at the time, living in the Bahamas and I'm in the United States. I've never forgotten that kindness and in return I sought out as many "Herman" collections as I could find.
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The Second Herman Treasury
I don't know how many cartoonists would have done that for someone they didn't know. But Jim Unger did. (Cathy Guisewite, creator of 'Cathy' actually took the time to make a drawing of her character for me.)

Unger's work influenced many strips with a weird zaniest about them, such as Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' (who never did respond to my letter!!) and many, many more, including my own work.



The Second Herman Treasury open
Original Herman by Jim Unger on my studio wall.




Sunday, January 25, 2009

George and Me

I've been working non-stop on a comic strip feature I hope to send off to the syndicates. It's a form of inflecting hell on myself that I go through every so many years. Like a drug addict that can't resist blowing insanity up his nose.

I so love collecting rejection slips. It's comforting to know that after all the work I pour into these things that someone takes the time to tell me, "Hell no we can't use this sh*#!". It's also a challenge to continue to send off more crap, to collect yet more rejection slips. And thus the cycle continues. It's a weird way of reaffirming who I am.

George W. Bush may be the most well known rejected person in America today but at times like these I feel he has nothing on me. :O/