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ARTISTS

• Anthony Ausgang -- wild cartoon paintings
• Buff Monster -- modern cartoon designs, paintings, installations, toys. Some are pink!
• Dalek Art -- modern cartoon paintings and graphics. Beautiful work!
• Kit Davenport -- nice ceramic sculptures
• Cynthia Hooper -- artwork includes beautiful paintings of landfills, industrial zones, vacant lots. My kind of places.
• James Paterson -- uses Flash animation to combine sketchbook drawings in unpredictable ways.
• Karen Sullivan -- psychological, spiritual primitive-style paintings with a nice cartoony quality
• Henning Wagenbreth -- wonderful TOBOT "automated illustration system" artworks! Endlessly inventive.
• Jesse Wiedel -- paintings of poetic misfits in a gritty world

ARTISTS: cartoonists and illustrators

• Tom Bunk -- humor artist for MAD, Garbage Pail Kids, Silly Cds, and many more!
• David Burke -- monsters paintings, and cool Monster Babies
• Leslie Cabarga -- cool fonts, art books, graphic design, illustration, stock art
• David Coulson -- classic warm-hearted cartoons, illustrations, lettering
• Robert Crumb -- has comics, books, prints, cards, sculptures, etc. by Crumb and family members. (Site founded by Jesse Crumb)
• Duane Flatmo -- murals, cartoon-cubism illustrations and wild human-powered kinetic sculptures
• Rick Geary -- amazingly felt drawings and graphic novels
• Jeff Jordan -- surreal paintings ("National Geographic on acid", as one viewer said), and Mars Volta album covers.
• Jay Lynch -- has done underground comix, illustrations, hundreds of Wacky Packages roughs, Garbage Pail Kids gags, other Topps projects, the Meanie Babies card backs, and Silly CDs gags
• Mark Newgarden -- art director for Topps' Garbage Pail Kids, Gruesome Greetings, Toxic High and more. See his new animation, books, and humor projects.
• Scott Shaw! -- master cartoonist, animator, and art director
• Brian Taylor's Candy Killer -- amazing, precise, goofy cartoon character designs. Retro-style vector art. Sometimes 3-D.
• Adam White -- t-shirts and graphic art with strong pop design
• Skip Williamson -- one of the masters of underground comix. Very nice cartoony paintings
• Jim Woodring -- beautiful, mystical cartoon paintings and comics (JIM, FRANK) -- Outstanding!
• Ray Zone -- the king of 3D comics!

GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS

• The BLAB! Show -- yearly show of art by BLAB! artists at CoproNason Gallery (Bergamot Station, Los Angeles)
• The Cartoon Art Museum -- exhibits of comic and cartoon art, and a museum bookstore. Located near SFMOMA and Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco
• Crocker Art Museum -- large fine art collection in Sacramento, California
• Humboldt State University's First Street Gallery -- exhibits of contemporary art
  (page on John Pound's 2003 show, "His Secret Life")
• Humboldt Arts Council at the Morris Graves Museum of Art -- regional art museum with contemporary art exhibits
• The Ink People -- local arts organization for printmaking, all media art classes, free community access computing. The Ink People has a gallery in Eureka, CA that hosts monthly shows, and they help artists place shows in local businesses

GARBAGE PAIL KIDS

• The Garbage Pail Kids Archive -- shows many GPK items, including foreign GPKs, and many GPK web links
• Barren Aaron's GARBAGE PAIL KIDS Reference Guide -- comprehensive lists and information. You can even look up your name, to find which GPKs use it
• E-BAY's online auction of GARBAGE PAIL KIDS items -- shows current bids
• Garbage Pail Kids World -- a Topps sponsored site. Has GPK animations, and a "build your own GPK" feature, virtual GPKs. Fun! (Also shows where to find GPK retailers near you)
• GEEPEEKAY.com -- Matt has many nice features here on GPKs.
• GPK Island -- Garbage Pail Kids and similar cards for sale.
• Hilltop-Auctions -- Ebay store specializing in Garbage Pail Kids and video games
• Topps GPK page -- has info on the newer GPK releases, and a GPK iPhone and iPod app.
• Wayne's GPK references -- lots of info! And some unpublished GPK series 16 printer's proofs
• Adam Bomb Cartoons -- info and pictures of the 1988 animated GPK cartoon series that was never shown on TV
• Wikipedia page on Garbage Pail Kids
• YAHOO's GPK web links

PUBLISHERS

• Blab World -- anthology magazine of experimental comics and graphic design, pop culture, and good weird art
• Dark Horse Comics -- comic books, graphic novels, and related products
• Comic Images -- trading cards and/or dolls (some years back they co-published Meanie Babies cards with Dark Horse)
• Fantagraphics -- alternative and underground comics. Artists include Crumb, Clowes, Woodring and Ware. Ask for their catalog. They also publish The Comics Journal, with news, criticism, good cartoonist interviews.
• Last Gasp Comics -- underground comics, progressive art books, counter-culture books. Not for minors.
• Jamungo -- vinyl dolls and more
• Juxtapoz magazine -- features edgy alternative art
• Shorty's Inc -- makes skateboards and skatin' hardware and clothing
• Topps -- their site focuses on new products (including the All-New Wacky Packages and All-New Garbage Pail Kids)

RANDOM ART, RANDOM COMICS

• Artificial -- experimental computer programs for graphics.
• Auto-Illustrator -- Adrian Ward's vector drawing software, a parody of Adobe Illustrator, comes with many cool random drawing tools. You can even write plug-ins for it. Good documentation. Demo and full versions available.
• Exercises in Randomness -- random sequences of Mary Worth comics.
• Grafik Dynamo! -- Bold 3-panel layout combines random text balloons with random images from blogs and news sources on the web. The panels change as you watch.
• Harold Cohen's "Aaron" program -- draws random figures and landscapes.
• Laff Randomizer -- by Shmorky (Dave Kelly) -- a great example of randomly generated web comics, done in Flash.
• Leon's Random Comic Strip Generator -- makes 3 panels with random nonsense sentences, with primitive art showing 1 - 3 characters.
• NewsComic -- by Dave Miller, recycles and chops up live news (RSS feeds) to build stories, using a 3-panel layout.
• One-Armed Carl -- random panel sequences of Scott McCloud's comic. First and last panel stay constant. (On recent visits, page doesn't work right.)
• Scott McCloud's "5 card Nancy" game -- how to make short random comic strips by combining panels of Ernie Bushmiller's classic Nancy strips
• Stripcreator -- it can make random 3-panel strips. Or you can choose the characters and backgrounds, and type the text for the word balloons.

SPECIALTY BOOK DEALERS

• Bud's Art Books -- (formerly Bud Plant Comic Art) new and recent books on comics, fantasy art, illustration, illustrators of the past, calendars, cards, pin-up art. Extensive selection, great catalogs.
• JVJ Publishing (Formerly Bud Plant Illustrated Books) -- information and publications on illustration, illustrators, fantasy art, comics. Site has extensive biographies of major illustrators.
• Lambiek.net -- Amsterdam comics store's website. Look up comic artists in the Comiclopedia - with more than 11,000 international comic artists, complete with biographies and samples of their artwork. Also has art exhibitions.

WACKY PACKAGES

• Ern's Wacky Packages Place -- cool stuff for sale and images of his collections
• Topps Wacky Packages page -- Topps' site has info on recent Wackys releases, and iPhone and iPod apps.
• Wacky Packages 2005 -- site has scans and info on Topps' new Wackys
• The Wacky Packages Web Pages -- info on old and new Wackys, and who painted which ones

Other

• Non-Sports Update -- slick color magazine with trading card industry news and ads. They also publish information on Topps' Wacky Packages.
• The Wrapper -- newsprint magazine with ads for card and sticker dealers
• Comic-Con International -- the huge pop culture convention meets in San Diego each summer. Meet hundreds of artists, writers, editors, publishers, fans, collectors, dealers. Also runs the Alternative Press Expo and WonderCon.
• Lines on Paper -- this site is in favor of comic books. Are you?
• Winged Tiger -- promoting literacy, creativity, arts, using cartoons and humor. Founder Phil Yeh and other artists create books, paint murals, take part in school assemblies, conventions, conferences and other public events for all ages throughout the world
• John Heinrich -- the steel guitarist's site. Includes some MP3's of his work
• Pixels3D -- great Macintosh 3D modeling and animation software.