Introducing…
Achille Superbi is a new member fom Torino, Italy and a professional caricaturist. Most of the works he has contributed so far are very smoothly drawn and distorted in just the right way. There’s Germany’s Michael Ballack (ca. 2006), Bill Gates on a beach, Ronaldo during his AC Milan period, and director Pedro Amodovar, whose haircut really is that funny. I can’t really tell if Achille’s caricature of President Obama is a digitally distorted version of a photo – not that this would matter – but if so, Achille has added a great twist to it.
Cartoons of Interest
This week’ favourite is “Laptop” by German artist Beck (intl). It doesn’t really have a punchline, nor does it need one. Think of it as a slightly surreal snapshot. I fact, this would work as a real photo if only trains weren’t that expensive or toilets that heavy.
I have written about toonpool.com member Alves both last week and the week before that. And I’ll do it again: this time to point out the nice way of sequential storytelling he came up with (here, here, here & here). At least one of these cartoons has been published in Brazil’s MAD-magazine.. and it shows. Which means I don’t think it’s funny if you’re older than ten. But, again, the temporal sequence.There’s that interesting jump between the last picture and the one before making the whole story a flashback… and, since you can tell from the squiggly panels, I think you’re more eager to get to the final one than in a ‘normal’ narrative strip.
If you haven’t already, please also take a look at the ever-so-stunning work of British artist Russ Cook. I probably mentioned him before, but just look at the caricatures he’s contributed this week: there’s Liverpool FC’s Rafael Rafa Benitez, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Austrian composer Johann Baptist Strauss.
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