If you (like me) didn’t git a chance to go to MoCCA this year, you kin still read th’ Cartoon Crier in th’ comfort of yer own cave. Now no one will see you weepin’. Mind yer keyboard.
Click th’ cover or RIGHT HERE, sweet hearts.
Readallaboudit! Hot off th’ presses!
Some shots of The Cartoon Crier as it was comin’ off th’ truck, and a coupla shots o’ some toons I contributed. To see th’ rest, yer gonna halfta gitcher own.
April 28th at MoCCA for a physical copy (and more conventions to be announced). May 1st at cartoonstudies.org for a digital download. The Cartoon Crier is FREE — like the wind. It only costs you yer time and yer tears, babies. Gitchoo some.
I recently had th’ somewhat dubious honor o’ co-editing (with R. Sikoryak and James Sturm) a collection of the saddest strips we could cull from the communities of The National Cartoonists Society and The Center for Cartoon Studies. It’s now off to the presses.
The Cartoon Crier is printed on newsprint in the tabloid format, and packed to the brim with morose and melancholic cartoons (old and new) from:
Ivan Brunetti, Patrick McDonnell, James Kochalka, Lynn Johnston, Bill Griffith, Michael Kupperman, Greg and Mort Walker, Anders Nilsen, Brendan Burford, Jim Rugg, Tom Gammill, Jeffrey Brown, Greg Evans, Melissa Mendes, Blaise Larmee, Bil Keane, James Sturm, R. Sikoryak, yours truly, and many other members of the NCS and CCS communities. It’s a sadstravaganza! Gitcher cryin’ pants on and join the pity party!
The Center for Cartoon Studies
The Cartoon Crier
The Cartoon Crier will be available first (and free) at MoCCA on April 28th. It will also be available as a free download on May 1 from the website of The Center for Cartoon Studies. Whoot.
Here’s a header and one o’ th’ panels from somethin’ I’m hackin’ away at. Tumbl Tumbl.
I tried to draw Popeye onct. Seven times total if you count all th’ panels. Hadn’t posted this anywhars, yet.
Segar I ain’t.
Still gettin’ th’ hang o’ this Tumblr thang.
Here’s a cartoon essay I did on “Naughty Pete” that The Comics Journal was kind enough to run on their blog back in November.
Where They Draw: Cole Closser
Here’s me in my old space — th’ big, beautiful apartment that I loved. I got a fireplace an’ a window. I got a bulletin board and a cartoon rat. I also had a cat (real one).
This is my space now. The apartment’s a quarter the size, smells like dirty water, has no windows, and is located in the cold, barren north. They do not allow cats.
That’s a great big Hamilton drawing table. Made in the USA close to a century ago. I got random reference pitchurs on th’ walls — family photos — stuff I like. Gurlfriend photos and Nancy and Sluggo go on the table.
I pencil with an Alvin Draft/Matic 0.5 pencil and soft lead. Depending on what I’m working on, I’ll ink with a cheap brush, G-nib, Gillott No. 170, or a Pentel Pocket Brush. I usually letter with a Micron 08 or a Hunt B5 1/2.
I use Speedball Super Black ink, black crayon, and Pro White on vellum Bristol. I thumbnail and sketch in Moleskine notebooks. I also love my Ames Lettering Guide (covered in masking tape, because it’s invisible on carpet), my T-square, my 24-inch C-Thru ruler, X-Acto blades, kneaded erasers, and my Virgin Mary key fob.
That red cowboy mug is my all-purpose drinkin’ cup. I enjoy coffee, Coca-Cola, or Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey whilst I am working.
Bless yer hearts.
www.coleclosser.com
I s’pose it’s th’ future, an’ I gots to git me a tumblr.
Looks like I might be postin’ cartoons ‘n’ things in here from time to time.
Still ‘n’ all, you kin always git a hold o’ me in th’ same ol’ place.
Begin th’ beguine, babies.
