wednesday - nov 26 - funny fellows cartoon character - willa wiggles (2 illustrations) and willa in her pickle spaceship
willa wiggles - two illustrations and willa wiggles from the planet pickles in her pickle spaceship
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Cartoon broadcasting Plan for Berlin´s subway screens
Our cooperation with the Berliner Fenster continues:
Cartoons - uploaded on toonpool.com - will be broadcasted each
one 40 times per day on 4000 video screens in Berlin's
subway trains, 04:00h - 24:00h CET, with artist's name displayed
well readable (NO money involved, even NOT for toonpool.com but
we will try to offer selected works to newspapers). Cartoons
will be enjoyed by approx. [b]1,5 million passengers per day.Broadcasting Plan for toonpool.com-cartoons on screens
in Berlin's subway system (tv):
23/11/09: "Satirisches Grippeschwein" by Matthias Töpfer (Germany) 24/11/09: "Internet-Gott" by Hule Manusic (Austria)26/11/09: "Busy Street In India" by Phani Tetali (India)28/11/09: "Gay Kevin" by Mark Lynch (Australia)29/11/09: "Future Nature" by Agim Sulaj (Italy)30/11/09: "Body Language" by Nicoleta Ionescu (Romania) 01/12/09: ""Henri is sick" by Mark Lynch (Australia)03/12/09: "Marilyn" by Fabrício Manohead (Brazil)05/12/09: "Europe - Africa" by Damien Glez (Burkina Faso06/12/09: "Santa Claus" by Florian Qilliec (France)07/12/09: "Vaccine Is Ready" by Firuz Kutal (Norway)08/12/09: "Marlene Dietrich" by Erdogan Karayel (Germany)
Shit Happens! / INTERVIEW
Ralph Ruthe, Jahrgang 1972, zeichnet Cartoons: bunt, rechteckig und ziemlich erfolgreich. Seine Reihe “Shit Happens!” wird in Zeitungen und Magazinen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz abgedruckt. Im Carlsen Verlag sind vierzehn Bücher von Ruthe erschienen.
Ralph, vom 28. November bis zum 10. Januar läuft in der Berliner Cartoonfabrik “Shit Happens! – Die Ausstellung”… Was wird da zu sehen sein?
Zum einen eine große Auswahl meiner persönlichen Lieblingscartoons aus den letzten sechs Jahren – als großformatige Drucke und teilweise auch als Originalzeichnung. Zum anderen zeige ich Skizzen, Entwürfe und Scribbles, gebe also Einblick in meine Arbeitsweise. Dazu gehören sowohl die handwerkliche Seite des Zeichnens, als auch die Ideenfindung.
Die Ausstellung war Anfang April schon einmal für einige Monate im wunderschönen Literaturmuseum in Oelde zu sehen. Ich freue mich riesig, dass Wolfgang Kleinert von der Cartoonfabrik sie jetzt nach Berlin geholt hat.
Kannst du irgendworan festmachen, welche deiner eigenen Cartoons dir am besten gefallen?
Ich bin besonders stolz auf Gags, bei denen ich selbst gar nicht mehr sagen kann, wie ich darauf gekommen bin. Eigentlich sind meine Ideen nur ganz selten Geistesblitze, sondern meist wirklich konkret “erarbeitet”. Wenn sich Cartoons beim Betrachten trotzdem so spontan und direkt anfühlen, als hätte es den Arbeitsprozess nie gegeben, bin ich schon etwas stolz.
tuesday - nov 24 - a funny fellows cartoon characters gallery - 8 funny creatures
the characters are in order: jewel, jolie, kolos, miranda, zaza, pixie, petunia, kiera
Stuffing, breast and thighs, oh my!
Hope these bring a smile to your face as they did to me when I received them today.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Last week on toonpool.com (November 15-21, 2009)
Each week, there are some new cartoons on toonpool.com that I just don’t get. Sometimes it’s because I don’t speak the artist’s language – I have, for example, always wondered what the cartoons by Indian artist Kaak are about. Other times it’s because I don’t know about the events the cartoon is referring to. Happens all the time with Barbeefish’s cartoons on right-wing American topics. The third category is just plain mysterious.
Last week, as every week, there were some new mysterious cartoons. I think this one by Portos is a good example for the I-don’t-understand-a-word category. The I-could-understand-it-if-I-knew-anything-about-your-culture category is being adequately represented by new member Mohamed Alafia, whom I will introduce below. Then, there are some cartoons that I think I should be understanding but I don’t: one in German, one in English, and two without any dialogue. There’s one that uses clear symbolism but makes your brain hurt if you try to think about it. And there are at least two that havecrossed the line to surrealism (one, two)
Introducing…
Mohamed Alafia’s cartoons are sporadically mysterious. Sometimes this is due to my ignorance of Moroccan topics (here & here) and a little research does help. At other times it’s due to my ignorance of Moroccan topics but even Wikipedia is clueless. Who is that Ponky guy? One cartoon, however, remains mysterious even though the captions are pretty clear. Anyway, Alafia’s style is interesting to look at – especially when he does these scribbly outlines in what might be ink, adds another layer of paler and broader ink scribbles and then puts in blotches of color on his computer (e.g. here). I’ve never quite seen anything like this before (...)
