Category: Cartoony Looney

DOuG pRATt drawings

Cartoony Looney – 13

Not quite ready to begin a run of Jeanie Beanie comic strips, but the taxes are done. I found another one of my newspaper cartoons, drawn in a faux-underground style.

It includes a little dig at the 1980 Republican National Convention, but I don’t remember if the editor let it go through to print. This was drawn almost 40 years ago, and it still bugs me that I didn’t have enough time before deadline to add a couple more faces to that white space!

Something else I drew for the newspaper…

Cartoony Looney – 10

Comic book editor and publisher Cat Yronwode had a column in the Comics Buyer’s Guide called Fit to Print. The column had header drawings that were submitted by anybody and everybody.

My submissions were strange in sort of an underground cartooning way. I made anagrams out of Cat’s name and the name of her column, and I used Gyro Gearloose’s little lightbulb helper character as a springboard for ideas. There is a six year gap between these two samples, with the top one being from 1990.

Cartoony Looney – 9

A couple more drawings from my time doing graphics work at a newspaper.

And, what the heck, here is a single panel example of my comic book drawing style, from when drawing that way still mattered to me. It looks rather generic because I was focusing on structure, and not style. This is from my portfolio that I showed to Joe Orlando at DC Comics, who said I “showed potential.”