{"id":7208,"date":"2018-01-14T15:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/blog\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2025-03-17T07:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:06:31","slug":"the-naked-cartoonist-what-is-a-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/blog\/the-naked-cartoonist-what-is-a-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Cartoonist: What Is a Cartoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt from Bob Mankoff\u2019s book<\/em> The Naked Cartoonist.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cMe, sir. I\u2019m a cartoon.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Well, bless your little plucky heart, but no, you\u2019re just a cartoon character. Not a whole cartoon. Neither is A, which is an illustration in cartoon style, or B, which is just the same thing but marginally more clever.
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But, with all due immodesty, I think C and D make the grade.
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\n\u201cBut, sir, aren\u2019t C and D bad grades?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(It\u2019s humiliating to be heckled by your own cartoon character, in your own book, but I can\u2019t do anything about it. These guys have a union.)<\/p>\n

\"\"See, I told you.<\/p>\n

But, my own character\u2019s protestation notwithstanding, the cartoons I\u2019m talking about are more than simplified funny drawings of people, animals, or situations. Drawings need ideas to turn them into cartoons.<\/p>\n

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Take this drawing of mine, for example.<\/p>\n

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Now, bring that back immediately, or I swear to God you\u2019ll never appear in another cartoon of mine.<\/p>\n

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Thank you.<\/p>\n

Anyway, all that\u2019s really necessary to transform this drawing into a cartoon is to turn it on its side. Then add an idea. Like this:<\/p>\n

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Here are a few more simple examples. All these drawings need in order to become cartoons is just a little more inking\u2014and a lot more thinking.<\/p>\n

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This example from Jack Ziegler cinches the case.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s one from Sam Gross.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Get the idea? It\u2019s not the ink, it\u2019s the think<\/strong> that makes a great cartoon.<\/p>\n

Often, there\u2019s little visual difference between a drawing that works as a cartoon and one that doesn\u2019t. The difference is conceptual\u2014and that\u2019s a huge difference.<\/p>\n

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Probably because you guys are too logical. Now, it might seem that logic produces cartoons like the one below, but what\u2019s at work is really another mental function altogether. Creativity.<\/p>\n

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And, while logic proceeds, step by small, explicable step, creativity vaults to its end in one great leap.<\/p>\n

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Logicians can teach you logic, but it is cartoonists who can teach you creativity. Cartoonists? Not artists, writers, scientists, or accountants? Well, creative accounting is a felony and, anyway, I just threw in accounting to be funny. But what about the other three?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wish to disparage the creative capabilities of these worthy professionals at length, so I\u2019ll do it quickly with cartoons instead.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The fact is, artists, writers, and scientists aren\u2019t very creative. Not when they\u2019re matched against cartoonists. Smarter? Yes. As creative? No. If a scientist comes up with one new idea a year, he\u2019s a genius. If a cartoonist comes up with only one new idea a day, he\u2019d better start looking for other work. When people in these other fields do get a new idea, they like to take a few years to perfect it, and then a few more to ruin it.<\/p>\n

Magazine cartoonists don\u2019t have that luxury. The core prerequisite for the occupation is creativity. They get paid for their ideas, and they have to come up with a whole lot of them every week, because nine out of ten will be rejected by fussy editors like me.<\/p>\n

\"\"The necessity for producing new ideas at warp speed doesn\u2019t mean cartoonists don\u2019t occasionally get stuck for ideas. We do, but that\u2019s just the stimulus for getting ideas\u2014about getting ideas or about not getting ideas.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The demands on creativity made by the cartoon profession make it the ideal laboratory for studying the creative process.<\/p>\n

Cartooning is idea creativity on overdrive. The simplified nature of cartoon ideas, the way they quickly change, mutate, breed, and evolve, make them ideal specimens of creativity. They\u2019re the equivalent of an organism like the fruit fly in genetic research.<\/p>\n

The fruit fly is used in decoding the mysteries of the genome (fun if you\u2019ve got nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon), because its chromosomes are easily seen under a microscope and because its short life cycle makes it ideal for following hereditary changes. The ideas in cartoons are like that. They\u2019re easily visible, and each of them has a life cycle whose winding course can be tracked from birth to death …<\/p>\n

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In fact, the death cartoon, and its ongoing evolution in The New Yorker,<\/em> is a perfect example.<\/p>\n

The personification of death as a cloaked man or a skeleton carrying a scythe has long been a staple of apocalyptic illustration and editorial cartooning.<\/p>\n

In these works, the Grim Reaper is indeed grim, but by the time he makes his way into The New Yorker <\/em>in the late sixties, the scenario is comic, not tragic.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the cartoonists have transformed him. The first change is that he\u2019s not really a symbol of death anymore. We\u2019re no longer in the land of pestilence and famine but in an America of ambition, leisure time, consumerism, and hypochondria.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Once this creative transformation is made, the cartoonists play off one another\u2019s work\u2014and their own. They see the Grim Reaper not as an alien presence but as one of us. They start to ask questions like \u201cJust what kind of life does Death have, anyway?\u201d Maybe he\u2019s just a working stiff working with stiffs. A guy who comes home from work like the rest of us, with even more work to do. And, if he\u2019s working that hard, maybe he needs a holiday, which maybe he can\u2019t afford.<\/p>\n

So he compromises, keeps working, but kicks back, gets in a little recreation, and returns from his minivacation refreshed, with a whole new approach to his work.<\/p>\n

Each good idea that gets published becomes part of the collective cartoon unconscious. At a certain point, a critical mass of ideas is achieved. There is then enough idea fuel to sustain a chain reaction of ideas indefinitely.<\/p>\n

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For example, in the Sidney Harris cartoon above, Death is not a tall, scary figure but an unscary, small one, as is appropriate for a representation not of death but of a sore throat.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cWorking Holiday\u201d cartoon he\u2019s in a golf cart, his scythe in the golf bag along with the clubs.<\/p>\n

I recombined and reconceptualized these elements to create my cartoon, which has a smallish Grim Reaper figure acting as a caddie holding a golf bag, which is now filled with different scythe clubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"A few more examples: Remember the cartoon with Death coming for the toaster? If you don\u2019t, have some neurological testing done, but here it is again, anyway, to jog your failing memory. It\u2019s not unusual for people to talk metaphorically about inanimate objects like flashlights, cars, and computers \u201cdying\u201d\u2014nothing very creative there. But, by taking the metaphor literally and following it to a comic conclusion, Arnie Levin was able to transform common speech into uncommon thought.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Then Roz Chast\u2019s \u201cMidlife Crises of Appliances\u201d could build on Arnie\u2019s idea by imagining that if appliances can really die, they can be subject to life\u2019s vicissitudes as well. She had as a precedent not only Levin\u2019s cartoon but many others, like those of Jack Ziegler, in which the line between people and appliances has become quite blurry. In cartoon creation, as in all creation except the divine, there is always precedent. Everyone has that precedent to look at, but a real cartoon is created by looking beyond what everyone else sees to find what no one has yet imagined.<\/p>\n

So here it is: the essential nature of a hyper-creative process like cartooning. It is creativity stripped down to its essence, because it is removed from the real-world constraints that would hamper it in other fields like science or medicine. There\u2019s no reality testing in cartoons, because the mind is creating its own reality.<\/p>\n

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In cartooning, the mind changes what isn\u2019t into what is. (Death isn\u2019t a person, but, presto chango, once I draw him on a page he is. And now he\u2019s available from central cartoon casting to be transplanted into an infinity of other environments.) The digressive nature of the cartooning mind, the comic mind\u2014my mind\u2014thrives on this. This is the creative process, unconstrained, running amok. Don\u2019t be concerned, though. That\u2019s just its normal cruising speed, so hop on board!<\/p>\n

\n\"\"This is an excerpt from Bob Mankoff’s book <\/em>The Naked Cartoonist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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