Cartoons

25 best Bush cartoons according to David Horsey.

Eustace Tilley

The New Yorker’s first cover (February 21, 1925), of a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine’s first art editor. The gentleman on the original cover is referred to as “Eustace Tilley,” a character created for The New Yorker by Corey Ford. Eustace Tilley was the hero of a series entitled “The Making of a Magazine,” which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer back in 1925. He was a younger man than the figure of the original cover. His top hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a morning coat and striped trousers. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley’s last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous. “Eustace” was selected for euphony, although Ford may have borrowed the name from Eustace Taylor, his fraternity brother from Delta Kappa Epsilon at Columbia College of Columbia University.

Recently, The New Yorker held a contest asking readers to redefine Eustace Tilley. Here is the portfolio of the winners.

The art of caricaturing

If you want to make caricatures, than read this 1941 book about the art of caricaturing (free via the Internet Archive).

Top Cat

On this day in 1925, actor Arnold Stang was born. The voice of Top Cat, Herman the Mouse and more is 82 years old today.

Via Toonopedia

Weebl and Bob

Weebl and Bob (picture links to first episode ‘pie’)

RK sez:

Salad Fingers

Salad Fingers is a popular Flash cartoon series created by David Firth.

In the surreal cartoons, the eponymous Salad Fingers inhabits a sparse and desolate world where he obsesses in the “delightful” feeling of the textures of various objects on his “salad fingers” (his fingers are long, green, and strangely shaped). In the same respect, he also shows slight enjoyment to pain. He especially enjoys rusty articles (particularly spoons); he also enjoys blood (or as he calls it, “the red water”), “grubby” water taps, and nettles (the sting of which he finds pleasurable). When Salad Fingers speaks, his fluctuating, gentle monologues draw the viewer into a bizarre world and appear in loopy text on the screen.

1. Salad Fingers episode 1 – Spoons
2. Salad Fingers episode 2 – Friends
3. Salad Fingers episode 3 – Nettles
4. Salad Fingers episode 4 – Cage
5. Salad Fingers episode 5 – Picnic
6. Salad Fingers episode 6 – Present
7. Salad Fingers episode 7 – Shore Leave
8. Salad Fingers episode 8 was announced July 16

From The Daily Campus:

What makes these flash animations stand out from the rest of their competitors is their modern approach to presenting obscure and unrelated events and visions together. There are no set introduction, middle and end to these pieces, only a dive into one vision right after the other. Like the scattered thought process after a stoner has reached his limit, Firth’s flash animation attacks his viewers with not only the inexplicable and surreal, but also with choppy images and inserts that set the viewer off track. Over and over again, viewers cannot help but ask what’s going on, but yet still enjoy the sensation of getting pulled deeper into their own ambiguous state of mind.

RK sez: not new, but still entertaining