Thursday, January 24, 2008
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- CARTOONIST FROM THE HOOD
- Oklahoma City, MidSouth, United States
- With a budding creativity and well-established reputation as “The Funny kid” John began drawing cartoons. Based on images from Walt Disney, Mad Magazine, Sesame Street and from The Cosby Kids:his first real affirmation was that black kids can be funny too. By age ten, John had developed dozens of characters, including story lines. Artistic influences go back as far as Sr. Marcianne, John’s cartoonist nun-first grade teacher who had a funny of way educating her students with the use of cartoons and who fueled his dream of an arts degree. Driven by his vision of becoming the mainstream “Cartoonist from the Hood”… John eventually acquired a Bachelor Degree in Art: then set out to promote the humorous black experience: from the inner city to wall street: but giants like Walt Disney were unable to share John’s vision but they did laud his artistic ability while inviting to revise and resubmit themes that were more traditional.Determined to promote his humor as is John launched “Groovy Toons” and accepted any assignment that provided an opportunity to display his nontraditional cartoons…
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