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Jason Holmgren
Jason Holmgren is an American cartoonist, art director, and role-playing game designer. Career Holmgren first started as a cartoonist for ''Shadis'' Magazine, where his strip, ''Joe Genero: Adventures of the Average Man'', debuted in 1990. The comic focused on the conceits of popular role-playing games, which all defined "average" in different ways. He later wrote and illustrated ''The New Adventures of Fineous Fingers'' for the same magazine, under license from J.D. Webster. Holmgren is responsible for several cover illustrations for the early issues of Jolly Blackburn's popular ''Knights of the Dinner Table'', and contributed to the design of the character Knights of the Dinner Table#Sara Ashlyn Felton, Sara . His artwork has been featured in ''Dork Tower''. Holmgren was head artist for ''Sheep on the Borderlands'', a 2002 Origins Award nominee. In 1998, Holmgren co-founded Sanguine Productions, and a year later produced ''Ironclaw, Ironclaw: Anthropomorphic Fantasy Role-Play'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, gag cartoons, storyboards, posters, shirts, books, advertisements, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, webcomics, and video game packaging. Terminology A cartoonist's discipline encompasses both authorial and drafting disciplines (see interdisciplinary arts). The terms "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or "comic book artist" refer to the picture-making portion of the discipline of cartooning (see illustrator). While every "cartoonist" might be considered a "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthropomorphic Fantasy Role-Play
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces, such as seasons and weather. Both have ancient roots as storytelling and artistic devices, and most cultures have traditional fables with anthropomorphized animals as characters. People have also routinely attributed human emotions and behavioral traits to wild as well as domesticated animals. Etymology Anthropomorphism and anthropomorphization derive from the verb form ''anthropomorphize'', itself derived from the Greek ''ánthrōpos'' (, "human") and ''morphē'' (, "form"). It is first attested in 1753, originally in reference to the heresy of applying a human form to the Christian God.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed. "anthropomorphism, ''n.''" Oxford University Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
