This has always been such a fascinating question, IMO. And what's weird (and kind of unfair) is that a cartoon absolutely needs to be well-written to be any good, but the drawing doesn't necessarily have to be. See XKCD, for example. I'm not sure why that is, except that maybe our brains are better at filling in the holes left by a piece…
This has always been such a fascinating question, IMO. And what's weird (and kind of unfair) is that a cartoon absolutely needs to be well-written to be any good, but the drawing doesn't necessarily have to be. See XKCD, for example. I'm not sure why that is, except that maybe our brains are better at filling in the holes left by a piece of art than they are by a piece of writing.
That said, I'm guessing anyone who claims that cartoonists "aren't writers" has probably never tried to actually draw one.
This has always been such a fascinating question, IMO. And what's weird (and kind of unfair) is that a cartoon absolutely needs to be well-written to be any good, but the drawing doesn't necessarily have to be. See XKCD, for example. I'm not sure why that is, except that maybe our brains are better at filling in the holes left by a piece of art than they are by a piece of writing.
That said, I'm guessing anyone who claims that cartoonists "aren't writers" has probably never tried to actually draw one.