“For we cartoonists’ who are not naturally gifted and have to work hard at our craft, there is some solace in looking at Dudley’s very early work before the Broons and Oor Wullie. That’s because if you began with no knowledge of his earlier work, and you just picked up a Broons or an Oor Wullie page from the 1940s or 1950s, and then traced it back to the first Broons comic of 1936, it can be very intimidating indeed. Although the Broons of 1933 is rougher than the Broons of 1943, it is still a very polished looking page for that era. There is no sign of the very rough artwork of say, the first Tintin story by Herge, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. Indeed, if you start with the Broons alone, Dudley seems to have just sprung up as a fully-formed cartooning genius.” – cartoonist Rod McKie discusses the great Dudley D Watkins; as anyone who’s read any of the articles Rod penned here on the blog would expect its well written with plenty of examples and references throughout. (via Dirk at Journalista)
(Oor Wullie and chums by Dudley Watkins, (c) DC Thomson)
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
Comics and cartoons