Career Advice from John K
October 17th, 2008

Over on his blog, my old pal John Kricfalusi – creator of Ren & Stimpy – talks about the two ingredients of good cartoons. When I discuss artistic principles I like to be broad and talk about issues applicable to all artists, or issues relating to the experience of expressing creativity. This is a little more specific about cartooning and comics, but it’s advice anyone can apply to whatever is their art. Get good, but don’t forget to have fun with it.

Click here to check it out…

Scroll down past the stuff about old newspaper cartoons to where the old Disney model sheets are.

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  • http://revolutuck.wordpress.com Tucker Mike

    Dude, I was just reading this!!!
    I just started reading his “1000000 dollar animation course” entries on there.
    I already used some of those principles that he lays down in designs that I’m doing for a client, last night.
    Yeah everybody go and save all those great old model sheets!

  • http://www.seanward.net Sean

    John K is such a scholar of animation and cartooning. He could go on for hours, and likely has! I forget how I found it but I even saw a thing where he wrote an essay about how you can tell the different Flintstones animators apart!

  • http://revolutuck.wordpress.com Tucker Mike

    Being that he knows you, I’m curious to what he said about your stuff?

  • http://www.seanward.net Sean

    We’re going back a couple of years, but he liked the cartooning and he liked the way I drew The Beatles.

  • http://revolutuck.wordpress.com Tucker Mike

    Yeah, those Beatle designs were great. I’d love to see a few scans from that book.

  • http://revolutuck.wordpress.com Tucker Mike

    Using those techniques with one of my own characters.
    http://revolutuck.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/dean-new-desigins/

  • http://www.seanward.net Sean

    Lookin’ good, bud!

  • http://revolutuck.wordpress.com Tucker Mike
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