Lat liked to doodle with materials provided by his parents, and his other forms of recreation were reading comics and watching television ; Lat idolised local cartoonist Raja Hamzah, who was popular with his tales of swashbuckling Malay heroes.

Not to be confused with the tentacle that is usually drawn in as a practical joke by the cartoonist.

He realized, however, that his profession as an independent cartoonist was limited to whatever joke he could conceive next.

Holman defined " notary sojac " as Gaelic for " Merry Christmas " ( Nodlaig Sodhach ), and " 1506 nix nix " was reportedly a private joke that included the hotel room number of Holman's friend, cartoonist Al Posen.

There have been many meta-joke strips about the process of creating a daily comic strip, particularly about writer's block, with the character admitting ( for the cartoonist ) the absence of a joke or the reuse of a joke used before.

While most cartoonist decided to follow the tide, some cartoonists have complained about this, with Pogo ending in 1975 as a form of protest from its creators against the practice.

* In 2007 cartoonist and comic book author Kyle Baker wrote a two-part comic book about Turner and his uprising, which was called Nat Turner.

McGee and Me and Student Bodies, two syndicated programs about the struggles of a cartoonist for a school newspaper, often used the artist's surrealistic caricatures of himself and his friends to visually illustrate his interior monologues.

Irving asserted that his " sceptical " views about the Third Reich were due to his doubts about the cartoonist caricatures of Hitler and the other Nazi leaders that appeared in the British press during the war.

Johnston had talked about either ending For Better or For Worse or handing it off to another cartoonist, but changed her mind as a result of her split from her husband of over 30 years.

He narrated Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty's 2006 film about world politics, Global Haywire.

Each is about five feet high, with two sides showing a collage of people associated with the area, from satirical cartoonist Hogarth to the popular singer Boy George.

Susanna Steig, the daughter of William Steig, the New Yorker cartoonist, wrote about being pressed so hard during Reichian therapy sessions that she had difficulty breathing, and said that a woman therapist had sexually assaulted her.

* 1983-The cartoon book The End by cartoonist Skip Morrow, about the lighter side of nuclear apocalypse, is published.

Mutt and Jeff was a long-popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about " two mismatched tinhorns.

Sweatshop, ironically, is about a cartoonist who hits it big.

Zits is a comic strip written by cartoonist Jerry Scott and illustrated by Jim Borgman about the life of Jeremy Duncan, a 16-year-old high school sophomore ( previously a 15-year-old for the life of the comic ).

The film was originally pitched as an animated horror film about an underground cartoonist, who fathers an illegitimate half-human / half-cartoon daughter, who hates herself for what she is and tries to kill him.

* Misunderstanding Micropayments-article by cartoonist Scott McCloud about micropayments and Bitpass

Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton adapted the Heritage Minute format in a comic about Margaret Trudeau, wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Lat paid attention to family life and children because of his idolisation of Raja Hamzah, a senior cartoonist who was also popular in the 1960s with his comics about swashbuckling heroes.

The character would often almost fall off the edge into oblivion and get angry with the cartoonist and complain about it.

He wrote a book in prison about his exploits and has held a job since 1998 as a cartoonist at a publishing house under a work-release program.

After Oakley and Weinstein left The Simpsons, they created Mission Hill in 1997, a show about a hip, lazy, 24-year-old cartoonist named Andy French, and sold it to The WB for a fall 1999 debut.

: This article is about Lou Myers, the cartoonist.

Canadian cartoonist Seth has recently written about the influence Chris Reynolds had on him.

The Prehistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit is a book chronicling the origin and evolution of The Far Side ( including cartoonist Gary Larson's first strip, Nature's Way ), giving inside information about the cartooning process and featuring a gallery of Larson's favorite Far Side cartoons from the 1980s.

") He shows panels of Nature's Way and talks about his early struggles as a cartoonist before he established himself in the field.

Markov tells a story of how Zhivkov reproached a popular newspaper cartoonist for modifying his signature to resemble a pig's tail, yet did not persecute him.

Moore is credited with showing acclaimed writer Alan Moore ( no relation ), then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts.

John T. McCutcheon, a Chicago Record Herald cartoonist, followed the next day with a cartoon about a " Professor Foxy Truesport " showing his class how to best make love.

For example, a series of strips from June 1999 deals with Mr. Noseworthy arguing with " Bruce Tinsley " over how the cartoonist should depict a mugger.

Ask any cartoonist who has labored all day on one punch line and they will tell you how difficult it is to create three ideas for one gag.

Capp's father, a failed businessman and reportedly an amateur cartoonist, introduced him to drawing as a form of therapy.

Tiga Sekawan was the culmination of that desire, the success after numerous failed submissions and an affirmation to Lat that he could become a cartoonist like his idol.

* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.

The cartoonist visited John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their 1969 Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, and their testy exchange later appeared in the documentary film Imagine: John Lennon ( 1988 ).

Bill Holbrook ( born 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and webcomic writer and artist, best known for his syndicated comic strip On the Fastrack.

When Sunday strips began to appear in more than one format, it became necessary for the cartoonist to allow for rearranged, cropped or dropped panels.

The Reuben, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U. S. comic strip artists.

Media analyst Norman Solomon and cartoonist Tom Tomorrow claim that while Adams ' caricatures of corporate culture seem to project empathy for white-collar workers, the satire ultimately plays into the hands of upper corporate management itself.

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991 ) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

Geisel also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for PM, a New York City newspaper.

Tenniel is most noted for two major accomplishments: he was the principal political cartoonist for England ’ s Punch magazine for over 50 years, and he was the artist who illustrated Lewis Carroll ’ s Alice ’ s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

The first such honour ever bequeathed on an illustrator or cartoonist, his fellows saw his knighting coming as gratitude for “ raising what had been a fairly lowly profession to an unprecedented level of respectability .” With knighthood, Tenniel elevated the social status of the black and white illustrator, and sparked a new sense of recognition of and occupational honour to his lifelong profession.

When no more reproducible material was available in 2001, Per Sanderhage, the editor of the Danish comic strip agency PIB, negotiated a deal where Ferd ’ nand cartoonist Henrik Rehr would redraw 32 pages loosely based on old magazine clippings for the annual.

Despite the contributions of Duffy and Mendez, there were no female members, as stipulated in the NCS ' constitution which specified that “ any cartoonist ( male ) who signs his name to his published work ” could apply for membership.

In 1949, Hilda Terry wrote a letter challenging that rule, and after more than six months of debates and votes, three women were finally admitted for membership in 1950 — Terry, Edwina Dumm and gag cartoonist Barbara Shermund.

As NCS president for two consecutive terms, Jeff Keane, cartoonist for the Family Circus and son of comic creator, Bil Keane, returned to the charter and spirit of the NCS by extending the society's outreach to the military by visiting and cartooning for vets who served in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War, during the years 2007-2011.