Comments on: The first cartoon… http://nealo.com/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/ a collection of editorial cartoons by neal obermeyer Thu, 21 May 2009 08:43:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Ron - Betty Boop Collectables http://nealo.com/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-32834 Thu, 21 May 2009 08:43:37 +0000 http://www.nealo.com/blog/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/#comment-32834 Personally I always watched bugs bunny and tom & jerry everytime I visited my great grand parents when I was little. I never read much cartoon strips, mostly tv. I wonder if my own children will think of bugs bunny as something really old like as when I think of cartoon characters like betty boop and popeye..

]]> By: neal http://nealo.com/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:17:40 +0000 http://www.nealo.com/blog/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/#comment-210 Tony,

It’s a long process but I’m slowly getting all the old DN cartoons uploaded to the site. I started from the beginning, then started working backwards from the end, and now I’m trying to fill in the middle. Here’s a rough outline of the progress:

Fall 99 – Complete
Spring 00 – About halfway done
Fall 00 – None uploaded
Spring 01 – None uploaded

Fall 02 – None uploaded
Spring 03 – About halfway done
Summer 03 – Complete

And I’m flattered that I was the first political cartoonist you paid attention to.

]]> By: Tony Roberts http://nealo.com/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:53:22 +0000 http://www.nealo.com/blog/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/#comment-207 Do you have copies of all your old DN cartoons?

]]> By: Tony Roberts http://nealo.com/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:52:47 +0000 http://www.nealo.com/blog/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/#comment-208 Seriously, I never really paid much attention until I was in college. Harvey Perlman was Duck Man, Dennis , oh I can’t remember, the President of UNL at the time, was Mum-Ra from the Thunder Cats TV cartoon series, there were others. A constant lampoon of UNL. That was when I started paying attention to political cartoons. I don’t remember just one that started it, but I do remember the quit-smoking-day Cartoon that said “In case of emergency, smoke this cartoon.”

]]> By: Charles Brubaker http://nealo.com/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:20:17 +0000 http://www.nealo.com/blog/2008/03/13/the-first-cartoon/#comment-209 I remember enjoying Jeff MacNelly and Herblock when I was a kid (both were still alive and we got a paper that ran them thru syndication). I didn’t actually “get” the cartoons, but I liked to look at their artworks.

My interest in editorial cartoons, however, was minimal (my heart was closer to comics, and still am, really), so after they died, I stopped following editorial cartoons.

Then came the 2004 election, I discovered “This Modern World” by Tom Tomorrow and started following it. Later that year, “Prickly City” by Scott Stantis began and despite the weak start, I became a loyal reader to the strip (I even have an original inscribed to me by Scott himself).

The rest is, as they say, history.

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