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If you haven’t seen the work of Space Coyote yet, you probably will soon. The anime renditions of the entire Simpsons clan have started opening a few doors. These are essentially reverse caricatures, or re-caricatures, pulling the main identifying features from one genre to another. Space Coyote is very good at this, and continues to draw Matt Groening characters, as well as other well known and stylistic cartoon icons like Calvin and Hobbes.
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I keep struggling with the title of this post, because I know that the Japanese style of drawing is called Manga and that the animation is called Anime. Simpsons is an animated cartoon, so it would translate into Anime. However, this is a drawing, so *technically* it should be called Manga. Calvin and Hobbes should be called Manga for sure, but it makes for a very long and awkward title. Please forgive me.
Actually if you think about it, Anime is a drawing of Japan that has been copied in drawings from Americans for ages. Were as, Manga is the comic books of Japan. Manga is made-up backward books to us but they are formally made in japan and translated to English for us to read. Anime is a world used among Americans as “animation” were in japan it is just Anime. If you understand correctly Calvin and Hobs cannot be a manga. Calvin and hobs is a comic book. There is a strained difference between comic books and manga such as, comic books are American, read left to right, fun and not so hurtful, and rarely intense, were as, Manga coming from Japan is read right to left, naturally violent and usually translated from Japanese to English, and most of them have an authentic manga seal on the back
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Yeah the Simpsons is a Cartoon not an Anime.
yeah, its a cartoon therefore an anime.. anime is simply the japanese word for animated cartoon.
i really like these drawings thoh. alot.
dude this rocks out loud… I LUUUUV IT
WOWZA! I love the Calvin and Hobbes one! Fantastic. Do more. Please!
This is very well done. I especially like the Simpsons drawing. Keep it up!
TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!! Can’t wait to see more
awesome calvin and hobbes. very nicely drawn and realistic seeing how the bill watterson draws them so very cartoon-like. very nice job. teach me or post an online guide to drawing? =)
thnx
nice job again
I adore the Calvin and Hobbes one.
You have inspired me to do that as well.
hobes look like he wants to eat calvin!
seriously its good!