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Victoria Roberts (cartoonist)
Victoria Roberts is a cartoonist and performer. A staff cartoonist for ''The New Yorker'' since 1988, Roberts' work has also appeared in ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Ms. Magazine'', and many other magazines and newspapers. She illustrates the Q&A weekly science question in ''The New York Times''. She was called Australia's most successful female cartoonist by ''The Age''. She is the author of ''After the Fall'', published by W. W. Norton and Company in November 2012. Her style has been described as whimsical, and according to ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', "there is delight, and childish embellishments". In her own words, she likes "to draw fat little ladies with hearing aids, weird infants with glasses, and domestic scenes; I see things as people at home see them". Her first cartoon strip, "My Sunday" appeared weekly in Australia's ''Nation Review'' when she was nineteen. In the strip, Roberts illustrates the hypothetical Sundays of famous people. Rober ... [...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] |
