CARTOONIST

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A 'cartoonist' is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. The term can also be applied to those who produce comic books, manga, editorial cartoons, as well as comic strip creators and, rarely, those working in animation. A person who works in animation or creates animated cartoons is generally not referred to as a "cartoonist" but as an animator.
A cartoonist traditionally sketches the picture out roughly in pencil first, before going over the sketches in black ink, using either brushes or metal nibbed pens. Cartoonists whose work is intended for online publication increasingly work in digital media.
Large comic book publishers (such as Marvel or DC) utilize teams of cartoonists to produce the art (typically one doing the pencil work and another doing the inking, with the coloring added digitally by colorists). When a consistent artistic style is wanted among different cartoonists (such as Archie Comics), character model sheets may be used as reference.
Calum MacKenzie in his preface to the exhibition catalogue ''The Scottish Cartoonists'' published by the Glasgow Print Studio Gallery (1979) defined the selection criteria as being "the difference between a cartoonist and an illustrator was the same as the difference between a comedian and a comedy actor- the former both deliver their own lines and take full responsibility for them, the latter could always hide behind the fact that it was not his entire creation."

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See also

★ Comic book creator

★ List of cartoonists

★ Webcomic

★ Women in comics

External links

★ Cartoonists Rights Network

★ Cartoonist Review

★ Planet Cartoonist

★ ComicsResearch.org - Cartoonists - A list of book-length studies on individual cartoonists

★ ProToonerz, Cartoonist Directory of Professional International Cartoonists.

★ Comic Creator - Flash game from Blue Peter

★ Selected Cartoonists

★ Online Cartoon Making, Online Cartoon Comic Strips Making which makes everyone a cartoonist