My Journey as an Artist
Part 2: Cartoons of the late 70's
For the most part in the 70's I continued doing cartoons featuring my created characters X and O enjoying doing the stories of these 2 stick figure characters.
However, in 1978 I created a new line of characters which featured a mix of human and animal characters. The called this group of comic characters simply The Gang.
The Gang featured a group of children characters lead by a boy named Leon as well as his friends and the pet dogs they all owned. After doing just a few art pages featuring all the characters I decided to focus more on just the dog characters, and I did full comic book stories featuring those characters. The characters featured REX who was the pet dog character of the boy Leon who was very outgoing and an expert skateboarder. The other characters featured his two best friends Kettleman and Lego as well as Rex's girl Daisy. I did 2 comic books featuring the characters. One called " Rex & the skateboard contest" and then "Rex against the World", which tells the story of Rex's skateboard contest against skateboarders from around the world. Once again these books were done mostly just for viewing by family and friends. I actually drew the cartoons and panels on typing paper drawing them on the front and the back of the page and taping all the pages together using masking tape.
In the next part of my journey as an artist I move into the 80's and my entry into High School which was a school that was a special school that emphasizes on the ARTS. It was a school that would put me on a course to be an artist for a lifetime.
Hope you'll join me for that blog post!
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