I tried and cannot find info on the source of this comic. Reverse image search turns up nothing, and I didn’t have any luck with the exact text at the bottom either.
If I’m reading the signature right, it looks like the cartoonist is G.B. Inwood. It’s likely early 1900s based on the style.
The way some artists start their drawings, I sometimes wonder if this is true more often than not. They just start making what seem like random lines or shading and eventually there is a picture of something that appears. Really gnarly when you see nothing recognizable until 1 final stroke and suddenly there’s, like, a human face on the page. Like, how the fuck did you do that?!
At least he put paint to canvas.
Im up to two unique and lovely ideas and neither of them has made any progress because WHAT IF i cant do the idea justice? I know I’ve spent literal years thinking about it but WHAT IF it isn’t what i had in mind???
Honestly, you have to go into it with the goal of making bad paintings. Just tell yourself, today I’m going to make a truly awful painting. If I’m ever going to learn to do this, I will have to waste paint and canvas. I have good paintings in me, but they are hiding behind a number of terrible paintings.
I will never know that number until I’ve painted them.
Do it. Worst that can happen? You fuck it up and paint over it (or get a new canvas). I’ve spent so many years not doing art for fear of the same thing, and I’m only getting older. You have the desire … start with a splot of any colour on the canvas and go from there.
I was able to find one more of the same artist, where the signature is better readable - looks like “Binwood”, at least i found this in this way. haven’t found anything more yet - this one is from the 1920s
https://www.ebay.com/itm/365324004717
The illustrator is G. B. Inwood, but I can’t find much about them.
Edit: the illustration might be from Volume 92 of The Judge, a publication from the University of Iowa, from 1927 – but I don’t trust Google Books to get the publication dates right.
Edit 2: Google Books was correct. Here’s the full magazine. This picture’s on digital page 4, numbered page 2.
I commented here first, and didn’t realise that someone evidently lifted your whole post:
https://piefed.social/post/2039941(unless that’s your alt)
That’s not me, but I generally don’t have an issue with cross-posting because it’s a good way of spreading content around the fediverse. I suppose since they didn’t delete my note in the post body, that could be confusing, lol
It’s strange that it’s not showing up as a crosspost though. Usually there’s an indicator in the UI.
Well, okay, but at least a proper attribution might be nice. Maybe in this case it’s not a big deal, but for someone who put real effort in to a post…
Btw in the other thread, someone has now found a book where the cartoon appeared.
True. And that’s amazing! I wonder how they managed to find it.
Happily, I asked them, and they broke it all down. Check that thread I linked, please.
And now for something completely different, “The Riker Maneuver”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XydZy3xNxvQ
Expand canvas
I don’t care if it’s 284294x38956
That’s all?
Those are rookie numbers!
Let’s see some scientific notation - then we’ll be talkin’ pro numbers!
