cartoonist Archives - PlayJunkie PlayJunkie Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:07:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 This Illustrator Provides a Well Needed Comic Relief https://playjunkie.com/this-illustrator-provides-a-well-needed-comic-relief/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 06:05:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=37620 Illustrator and cartoonist Leon Edler admits his biggest love is comedy. “I’m a comedy nerd and grew up loving everything from 50s radio comedy to modern sitcoms,” he told Sense of Creativity, mentioning names like Tony Hancock, Seinfeld, and Alan Partridge amongst his comedic icons. “I wanted to make stuff that made people laugh,” says […]

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Illustrator and cartoonist Leon Edler admits his biggest love is comedy. “I’m a comedy nerd and grew up loving everything from 50s radio comedy to modern sitcoms,” he told Sense of Creativity, mentioning names like Tony Hancock, Seinfeld, and Alan Partridge amongst his comedic icons.

“I wanted to make stuff that made people laugh,” says Edler. As it turns out, that “stuff” would be illustrations and cartoons. “I thought that would be for TV, but I liked how immediate cartoons were,” he explains. “I could draw them and make my friends laugh.” As time passed, his drawing improved, catching up to his sense of humor.

Jump forward a decade later and Edler now runs his own illustration studio, Leillo, based in Brighton. Over the years he has collaborated with the best of the best, including publications and news outlets like The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, and Vanity Fair.

“I’m sure everyone is creative in some way,” says Edler. “But it’s a spectrum like anything. I think if you’re really creative, you will always feel a need to make stuff – whether that’s writing, drawing, making music or whatever. But to make good stuff, you need to spend a lot of time practicing – finding what you’re good and bad at.” His confident style and hand-drawn humor provide a well needed comic relief.

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Check Out These Hilarious Cartoons Depicted By “The New Yorker” Magazine Artist https://playjunkie.com/check-out-these-hilarious-cartoons-depicted-by-the-new-yorker-magazine-artist/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=36188 Will McPhail is a Scotland-based artist who, despite the pressure he felt to find a ‘realistic’ career, devoted his life to art. The zoologist is currently creating comics for the famous The New Yorker magazine. He said in an interview with the BBC that his job is “to capture all different walks of life, the […]

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Will McPhail is a Scotland-based artist who, despite the pressure he felt to find a ‘realistic’ career, devoted his life to art. The zoologist is currently creating comics for the famous The New Yorker magazine.

He said in an interview with the BBC that his job is “to capture all different walks of life, the idiosyncrasies of life” and added that his ‘office’ is the wildlife of Edinburgh’s coffee shops and libraries.

“Your sense of humor is accumulated throughout your whole life, up to the point when your pencil touches paper; you’ve just got to hope it shows up,” McPhail revealed. “The reason why I’m decent at drawing cartoons is because I wasn’t very attractive in high school, so I developed a sense of humor as a deflection from that.”

He documents his work on Instagram where his cartoons regularly get tens of thousands of likes from his 166,000 followers.

Scroll down and check out his work below.

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When I was a kid we used to frequent this water park called “Waves” that had waves, but this story isn’t about the waves. Also, this story has nothing to do with the cartoon above. I just remembered it today and haven’t spoken to a person yet. Aside from the waves that gave “Waves” it’s iconic name, there was this water slide that started out like your standard tubular deal but then as a climax you were shot into this huge cavernous bowl-like structure with a hole in the bottom. It operated on the exact principle of those coin spiral things. Except I, my friends, was the coin! A little slippery penny of a boy! I loved it because amid the chaos and the chlorine of the water park the bowl was a brief moment of beautiful quiet solitude where it was just me again. Sometimes I think that I have never been happier than when I was inside that bowl. But HERE is where the story turns sour. One weekend me and the guys were putting out the vibe in the shallow end when I, hiding my desperation, suggested we hit up the bowl slide. The idiots took the bait and before long ya boy’s feet first sliding towards his wet oasis. The tube opened up and suddenly I was back where I belonged. But something wasn’t right. It felt different. I wasn’t alone. Skirting round to the far side of my beloved bowl I peered over my shoulder and confirmed my fear. There were other pennies in here. Three little kids somehow perched on the very brim of the bowl. Knees up around their chins. Silent. Staring at me. I stared back frozen in horror. Our gaze never broke as I circled the hole and eventually toppled through backwards. My friends soon followed behind me and without verbally deciding it, we headed back to the changing rooms. They too must have had their moment with the children in the bowl. But none of us ever spoke of it.

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This week’s @newyorkermag cartoon. 🐻

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Artist Recreates Cartoon Characters As They Age https://playjunkie.com/artist-recreates-cartoon-characters-as-they-age/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:11:16 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=15854 Cartoon characters, unlike real movie characters, remain the same way year after year. But have you ever imagined your cartoon characters aging as common people do? This artist has. Among the pictures displayed here, you can find Fred and Daphne, with both characters looking older. This suggests that if they were growing as we do, […]

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Cartoon characters, unlike real movie characters, remain the same way year after year. But have you ever imagined your cartoon characters aging as common people do?

This artist has. Among the pictures displayed here, you can find Fred and Daphne, with both characters looking older. This suggests that if they were growing as we do, they’d be looking this old by now. Another illustration shows what Scooby-Doo would look like, if he was growing older.

These cartoon characters were imagined and drawn by cartoon artist Isaque Arȇas. He posts his work on his Instagram account, and has got other cartoon characters in his gallery.

This is, indeed, creative!

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Meet Cartoonist Tom Chitty and His Humorous Work https://playjunkie.com/meet-cartoonist-tom-chitty-and-his-humorous-work/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:29:50 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=14824 Toronto-based illustrator Tom Chitty is one of The New Yorker regular contributors. His drawings have also found their way to magazines like Esquire, The Guardian, Topic, American Bystander, and more. His cartoons are insightful and often hilarious. He’s not afraid to use sarcasm and irony in order to convey sharp messages through humor. Chitty has worked with many famous companies over […]

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Toronto-based illustrator Tom Chitty is one of The New Yorker regular contributors. His drawings have also found their way to magazines like Esquire, The Guardian, Topic, American Bystander, and more.

His cartoons are insightful and often hilarious. He’s not afraid to use sarcasm and irony in order to convey sharp messages through humor.

Chitty has worked with many famous companies over the years, including YouTube, Google, Adobe, Microsoft, MTV, Orange, etc. You can find his work on Instagram and Twitter.

Scroll down to see some of his cartoons we’ve picked for you.

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Illustrator and cartoonist Leon Edler admits his biggest love is comedy. “I’m a comedy nerd and grew up loving everything from 50s radio comedy to modern sitcoms,” he told Sense of Creativity, mentioning names like Tony Hancock, Seinfeld, and Alan Partridge amongst his comedic icons.

“I wanted to make stuff that made people laugh,” says Edler. As it turns out, that “stuff” would be illustrations and cartoons. “I thought that would be for TV, but I liked how immediate cartoons were,” he explains. “I could draw them and make my friends laugh.” As time passed, his drawing improved, catching up to his sense of humor.

Jump forward a decade later and Edler now runs his own illustration studio, Leillo, based in Brighton. Over the years he has collaborated with the best of the best, including publications and news outlets like The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, and Vanity Fair.

“I’m sure everyone is creative in some way,” says Edler. “But it’s a spectrum like anything. I think if you’re really creative, you will always feel a need to make stuff – whether that’s writing, drawing, making music or whatever. But to make good stuff, you need to spend a lot of time practicing – finding what you’re good and bad at.” His confident style and hand-drawn humor provide a well needed comic relief.

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Check Out These Hilarious Cartoons Depicted By “The New Yorker” Magazine Artist https://playjunkie.com/check-out-these-hilarious-cartoons-depicted-by-the-new-yorker-magazine-artist/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=36188 Will McPhail is a Scotland-based artist who, despite the pressure he felt to find a ‘realistic’ career, devoted his life to art. The zoologist is currently creating comics for the famous The New Yorker magazine. He said in an interview with the BBC that his job is “to capture all different walks of life, the […]

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Will McPhail is a Scotland-based artist who, despite the pressure he felt to find a ‘realistic’ career, devoted his life to art. The zoologist is currently creating comics for the famous The New Yorker magazine.

He said in an interview with the BBC that his job is “to capture all different walks of life, the idiosyncrasies of life” and added that his ‘office’ is the wildlife of Edinburgh’s coffee shops and libraries.

“Your sense of humor is accumulated throughout your whole life, up to the point when your pencil touches paper; you’ve just got to hope it shows up,” McPhail revealed. “The reason why I’m decent at drawing cartoons is because I wasn’t very attractive in high school, so I developed a sense of humor as a deflection from that.”

He documents his work on Instagram where his cartoons regularly get tens of thousands of likes from his 166,000 followers.

Scroll down and check out his work below.

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When I was a kid we used to frequent this water park called “Waves” that had waves, but this story isn’t about the waves. Also, this story has nothing to do with the cartoon above. I just remembered it today and haven’t spoken to a person yet. Aside from the waves that gave “Waves” it’s iconic name, there was this water slide that started out like your standard tubular deal but then as a climax you were shot into this huge cavernous bowl-like structure with a hole in the bottom. It operated on the exact principle of those coin spiral things. Except I, my friends, was the coin! A little slippery penny of a boy! I loved it because amid the chaos and the chlorine of the water park the bowl was a brief moment of beautiful quiet solitude where it was just me again. Sometimes I think that I have never been happier than when I was inside that bowl. But HERE is where the story turns sour. One weekend me and the guys were putting out the vibe in the shallow end when I, hiding my desperation, suggested we hit up the bowl slide. The idiots took the bait and before long ya boy’s feet first sliding towards his wet oasis. The tube opened up and suddenly I was back where I belonged. But something wasn’t right. It felt different. I wasn’t alone. Skirting round to the far side of my beloved bowl I peered over my shoulder and confirmed my fear. There were other pennies in here. Three little kids somehow perched on the very brim of the bowl. Knees up around their chins. Silent. Staring at me. I stared back frozen in horror. Our gaze never broke as I circled the hole and eventually toppled through backwards. My friends soon followed behind me and without verbally deciding it, we headed back to the changing rooms. They too must have had their moment with the children in the bowl. But none of us ever spoke of it.

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This week’s @newyorkermag cartoon. 🐻

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Artist Recreates Cartoon Characters As They Age https://playjunkie.com/artist-recreates-cartoon-characters-as-they-age/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:11:16 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=15854 Cartoon characters, unlike real movie characters, remain the same way year after year. But have you ever imagined your cartoon characters aging as common people do? This artist has. Among the pictures displayed here, you can find Fred and Daphne, with both characters looking older. This suggests that if they were growing as we do, […]

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Cartoon characters, unlike real movie characters, remain the same way year after year. But have you ever imagined your cartoon characters aging as common people do?

This artist has. Among the pictures displayed here, you can find Fred and Daphne, with both characters looking older. This suggests that if they were growing as we do, they’d be looking this old by now. Another illustration shows what Scooby-Doo would look like, if he was growing older.

These cartoon characters were imagined and drawn by cartoon artist Isaque Arȇas. He posts his work on his Instagram account, and has got other cartoon characters in his gallery.

This is, indeed, creative!

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Meet Cartoonist Tom Chitty and His Humorous Work https://playjunkie.com/meet-cartoonist-tom-chitty-and-his-humorous-work/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:29:50 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=14824 Toronto-based illustrator Tom Chitty is one of The New Yorker regular contributors. His drawings have also found their way to magazines like Esquire, The Guardian, Topic, American Bystander, and more. His cartoons are insightful and often hilarious. He’s not afraid to use sarcasm and irony in order to convey sharp messages through humor. Chitty has worked with many famous companies over […]

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Toronto-based illustrator Tom Chitty is one of The New Yorker regular contributors. His drawings have also found their way to magazines like Esquire, The Guardian, Topic, American Bystander, and more.

His cartoons are insightful and often hilarious. He’s not afraid to use sarcasm and irony in order to convey sharp messages through humor.

Chitty has worked with many famous companies over the years, including YouTube, Google, Adobe, Microsoft, MTV, Orange, etc. You can find his work on Instagram and Twitter.

Scroll down to see some of his cartoons we’ve picked for you.

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