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Rex Hesner
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Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons
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Whenever I see a cartoon on a friend's refrigerator, I ask what they liked about it. Though answers vary, something about the cartoon struck a persona
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“The consensus in the cartooning world is that a great drawing won’t save a weak gag, but a great gag can survive mediocre artwork.”
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“By classifying cartoons according to type of humor, we are not plucking them up with a tweezer and inserting them into specimen jars to be put on a dusty shelf for exhibit, like a nineteenth-century taxonomist at a natural history museum. That would kill the funny.”
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“We also acknowledge that library shelves at universities are jam-packed with weighty tomes that analyze humor in its many manifestations in art and literature. We have not read any of them or even seen them for that matter, but we’re pretty sure they exist.”
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“Many if not most cartoonists–and standup comedians for that matter–are social critics, at least to some degree. They poke fun at the failures of our institutions, hypocrisy of politicians, foolishness of bosses, and unfairness of life in general.”
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“Cartoonists get their ideas from the same place that all good ideas come from: some blend of conscious and subconscious thought. Accessing that place, however, can be tricky, perplexing, and sometimes distressing.”
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