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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    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?!

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    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???

    • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      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.

    • egrets@lemmy.world
      13·
      19 hours ago

      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.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      22 hours ago

      Oh cool, nice find! It does look more like Binwood here.

      I’ve learned that a lot of old comics are hard to track down. I think a lot of papers didn’t have dedicated slots for specific cartoonists, so many published here or there over a limited period of time and didn’t get popular.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      That’s all?

      Those are rookie numbers!

      Let’s see some scientific notation - then we’ll be talkin’ pro numbers!

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      19 hours ago

      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.