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CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "Advice From a Soggy-Bottomed Box." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 29 Nov 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Andrew Birch - Muhammad, I take it you dislike mealy-mouthed
liberals more than right wing conservatives? Interesting viewpoint.
Muhammad Rasheed - From my POV as a Black American locked
out of the competitive open free markets and denied my Reparations no matter
who is in the White House, they are both the same.
Andrew Birch - Surely there are white liberal Americans who
support your fight?
Muhammad Rasheed - Not. One.
Muhammad Rasheed - They are all grifters.
Andrew Birch - Marianne Williamson?
Andrew Birch - A technical point from one cartoonist to
another - have you considered doing your ADOS cartoons in more than one frame?
That way you can break up the big blocks of writing into something a bit
snappier, and also have a punchline if you felt like it?
Muhammad Rasheed - Marianne deliberately tried to lowball us
with an insultingly low amount for our Reparations, even after she met with the
movement founders and economists who explained why her amount was way too low.
That performance was fundamentally untrustworthy, and she was the best of them.
Muhammad Rasheed – Andrew wrote: "have you
considered doing your ADOS cartoons in more than one frame?"
Yes, and I do so when the flow of the message calls for it.
Otherwise I don't mind the 'big blocks of writing' at all, since I'm not
constrained by strict newspaper layout requirements or anything similar that
would pressure me to adhere to now archaic traditions.
CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "Uncovering the Shouted-Down Uncomfortable Truths of
'The Bell Curve'." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M.
Rasheed 12 Oct 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color. < https://www.mrasheed.com/2020/10/uncovering-shouted-down-uncomfortable.html>
Andrew Birch - Great stuff! Complete with punchline...
Muhammad Rasheed - lol Obviously I'm not married to the
punchline as a must have. If it flows in then it's in.
Andrew Birch - I’ve had several strips running, but I always
had a set space to fill. You’re obviously not limited in that respect. Does
your work only appear online?
Andrew Birch - I like the way you used an actual image of
the book cover and slipped it into the cartoon. Was that very tricky? I’m a lot
older than you and not very technical.
Muhammad Rasheed - Andrew wrote: "I’ve had
several strips running, but I always had a set space to fill."
Yes, back in art school they showed us different industry
standard working templates that each type of cartooning form used.
Andrew wrote: "You’re obviously not limited in that
respect."
Noooo. lol
Andrew wrote: "Does your work only appear online?"
Yes, I upload it to my website and share it around to my
various social media. There's an online ADOS-focused political magazine I gave
permission to use the ones they like. But over all, the freedom and unlimited
image area online publishing gives me reminds me of the original golden age of
the newspaper comic strip, when the cartoonists had a whole page to do whatever
they wanted to do. That kind of freedom to just spread my wings and flex however
way I wish is intoxicating. I have zero reason to voluntarily confine the way I
work to any particular industry's formatting style unless I just want to in
order to mimic an effect.
Muhammad Rasheed - Andrew wrote: "I like the way
you used an actual image of the book cover and slipped it into the cartoon. Was
that very tricky?"
No, it's not tricky. In fact, the photoshop program makes
the entire clean-up, coloring aspect of cartooning so easy, it's now just a
part of the drawing, even though I still draw and ink with traditional tools.
When I first started, I still had to do clean up with Pro-White and a brush,
and stuff like that, but now once the ink dries and I erase the pencil, I scan
the drawing in and adjust it to make the blacks black and the whites white, fix
any typos, clean up any inking spills, and then add color and special effects
(like the bell curve cover) and have it ready for upload all in less than half
an hour. No problem. It definitely adds to cartooning way more than the old way
of doing it.
Andrew wrote: "I’m a lot older than you and not very
technical."
You don't look that much older in your profile pic. I just turned 50 yrs old this month.
Andrew Birch - You look a lot younger in your photo! Must be
due to clean living.
Muhammad Rasheed - lol I think I was 38 in this FB profile photo. My new face is greyer.
Andrew Birch - Haha!
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