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vozwords vozwords friday june 21 2019 eminem coming out of the closet a few years back i did several music videos for dr dre s company and director phillip atwell the first one was for the eminem song stan and my reaction was i m fine with working just don t make me listen to the music my only knowledge of the performer was through the popular press when i actually read the lyrics and listened to the song i was astounded at just an astute storyteller matthew mathers was the two videos i worked on of his were the best of that work posted by voz at 9 37 am 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 8 2019 hank ketcham in the abstract a few years back i was at a gathering for art dealers at a friend s house and was glancing through one of their portfolios when i came across a dennis the menace drawing by hank ketcham you do realize this is the best art in the book i commented the owner looked at me trying to decide if i was kidding or just that much of an idiot there was some pretty fair talent in his book probably some romita jr buscema perez bryne gil kane and others who i truly admired but i would stand by my assessment don t be fooled by the simply cartoon style when your start to examine what an amazing draftsman ketcham was the acting of his characters the composition and most importantly his abstract designs with the wonderful spotting of texture and blacks i don t think any of those gentlemen would have thought they were being unduly criticized hank ketcham started taking drawing seriously at the tender age of six when he got him first drawing lesson from a friend of family who was a commercial artist he immediately began to spend all his spare time tracing his favorite cartoon characters and developing his own approach to the drawing and he quickly decided at that young age that he wanted to grown up and be a cartoonist throughout his high school days he edited and drew not only for his school paper but also did his own weekly circular for the neighborhood and he also discovered animation and became a devoted fan hank had started taking classes at the university of washington when he read about walt disney looking for artists after the success of his snow white animated feature taking what meager savings he had the brash young man soon became a college dropout and headed south for the glamorous world of hollywood initially rejected by disney ketcham supported himself with the help of relatives and various odd jobs until another break came his way walter lantz was looking for talent to work at his studio drawing andy panda and friends while hank honed his craft at the lantz studio one of the job perks was being able to walk around the universal studios backlot occasionally catching a glimpse of w c fields edgar bergen deanna durben and many others it wasn t long before he was called back to the disney studios where he spent the next several years working on pinocchio bambi fantasia and wind in the willows and he was working and socializing with the like of ward kimball fred moore walt kelly virgil partch and richard shaw in our modern era there are no shortage of great schools of higher learning where you earn a degree in cartooning and animation but in those days ketcham was getting the best education possible for his career and in the only way possible by getting on the job experience things were going so well when wwii erupted for america with pearl harbor and hank was soon in a sailor s uniform however once his graphic skills and background was discovered he was quickly plucked from the typing pool to work on designing an animated film to promote the us navy the only combat he saw during the war years was arguing with the brass and an occasional co worker about which direction a project might be headed he also started selling gag cartoons to any number of publications as a freelancer during this time including the popular half hitch based on his own navy experience as a regular feature for the saturday evening post when the war ended ketcham s freelance success as a cartoonist convinced him not to return to working at disney in california but instead to try his hand at the other end of the country in nyc he settled in westport connectictt with his recent bride alice and their new arrival dennis his neighbors were the cream of hall of fame illustrators from robert fawcett austin briggs noel sickles norman rockwell etc not only was he socializing with all this talent he was soaking up whatever instruction they could give him consequently his cartoons had a quality and substance far beyond the simplicity you saw at first glance and at home the young son also was bringing dramatic changes as he inspired ketcham s signature cartoon feature dennis the menace the strip s success was immediate and within a couple of years both fame and fortune were a normal part of the ketcham s home unfortunately while hank s life was a dream come true both his wife and son became victims of the success alice died of a drug overdose about the time she was forty and dennis was beset with behavioral problems at some point in his early adult hood he and his father became estranged and rarely communicated except hank bitterly commented when he needed cash it s unfortunate that two of ketcham s idols and eventually good friends rockwell and bing crosby were also men who were universally admired but had severe family problems as the strip skyrocketed with it s success ketcham moved to carmel california where he worked for a number of years and established a base in later years he would spend several years traveling the world settling in geneva for several years after remarrying he eventually returning to northern california he continued to work on dennis until 1994 when he retired and took up oil and watercolor painting which he continued to do until his death on 2001 one of my proud possessions is a pencil drawing along with a note he sent me in response to some of my own work so take a look at a few of the examples of hank ketcham s work while they are very simple drawings notice they the draftsmanship and perspective are impeccable were you to draw any of these frames up as realistic illustrations there would be very little you would have to do to add to or correct the drawing then look at the characters themselves with there acting and expressions while the figures themselves are stylized if you were shooting reference to do them realistically you would have to give your models very little direction it s all there the same can be said of the compositions while there are simplified to a few shapes and lines a rockwell or a fawcett would be adding little to them if he were doing an illustration for post or colliers but what really takes the work to another level is the abstract design that ketcham creates in every frame the way that the blacks are spotted the negative shapes in the frames themselves and intricate use of texture have all be created by a master look at the way he creates dappled shadows from sunlight filtering through trees on his characters notice the stark lighting often used to emphasize a story point each and every one has been painstakingly created with a great deal of thought there is a magic in the work that defies examination i guess you just have to read and enjoy dennis as one of the hallmarks of comic strip art posted by voz at 1 33 pm 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom my flickr photostream flickr followers blog archive 2019 2 june 1 eminem coming out of the closet january 1 2018 7 august 1 july 2 february 2 january 2 2017 18 december 2 november 2 august 1 july 1 june 2 may 2 april 3 march 1 february 2 january 2 2016 15 december 2 november 2 october 1 september 1 august 2 july 1 june 2 may 1 march 2 january 1 2015 20 december 1 november 2 september 1 august 1 june 1 may 2 april 2 march 2 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