{"id":12309,"date":"2010-04-27T02:54:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T07:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12309"},"modified":"2010-04-06T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:58:59","slug":"upton-colin-life-of-a-cartoon-artiste-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12309","title":{"rendered":"Upton, Colin &#8211; Life of a Cartoon Artiste #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinupton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/artiste111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"artiste11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/artiste111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Life of a Cartoon Artiste #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A weekly (or possibly daily, it&#8217;s been years and it&#8217;s hard to tell now) strip that&#8217;s actually funny?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m reminded more and more of why I liked Colin so much before all his stuff ended up in\u00c2\u00a0a box and untouched for years: the man has range.\u00c2\u00a0 I can count the number of funny weekly strips on one hand (Strip Joint, K Chronicles, This Modern World, Troubletown&#8230; probably forgetting a few), but Colin found a funny formula and stuck with it.\u00c2\u00a0 That man on the right of the cover is the artiste, someone who relentlessly pushes himself in the pursuit of art as a concept and will not settle for anything but the very best.\u00c2\u00a0 The man on the left of the cover is an artist, but someone who realizes that compromises are occasionally necessary and doesn&#8217;t mind the very thought of &#8220;funny&#8221; being the main goal of a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 The strips in here cover some familiar territory for any of you artists out there who have ever tried to sell a weekly or daily strip, or have just found yourself in awkward conversations with family and friends about the nature of your profession.\u00c2\u00a0 Strips in here include explaining to a doofus what it means to be a cartoonist, living with\u00c2\u00a0his work being funny, trying to find a way to be meaningful in the genre, the value of other art forms, &#8220;real art&#8221;, actual examples of open mike poets, getting\u00c2\u00a0his work censored, being a Canadian artist and falling in with the stereotypes, selling out, lambasting comic conventions (and then realizing that that&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0his fan base), buying indie comics as an investment, and getting his strip dropped.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Only 56 of his minis to go!\u00c2\u00a0 Or I could just wise up and buy some of\u00c2\u00a0his new stuff&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/artiste12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"artiste12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/artiste12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Life of a Cartoon Artiste #1 A weekly (or possibly daily, it&#8217;s been years and it&#8217;s hard to tell now) strip that&#8217;s actually funny?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m reminded more and more of why I liked Colin so much before all his stuff ended up in\u00c2\u00a0a box and untouched for years: the man has range.\u00c2\u00a0 I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[465,2450],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-colin-upton","tag-life-of-a-cartoon-artiste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12310,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions\/12310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}