Cartoonist

A cartoonist or comic strip creator is a person that specializes in drawing cartoon. The term can also be applied to those who produce comic book, manga, editorial cartoon, comic strip. A person working in animated cartoons is also commonly referred to as an animator. A cartoonist traditionally sketches the picture out roughly in pencil first, before going over the sketches in black ink, using either brush Kenisha's or metal nibbed pen. Cartoonists whose work is intended for online publication increasingly work in digital media. Cartooning is used in animated features, tv shows, and movies. Comic strips have traditionally been associated with main-stream newspaper. Such strips are distributed by syndicates such as the Universal Press Syndicate or the King Features syndicate. The Sunday cartoon strips, which are colored, often go to a coloring company such as American Color before they are published. Comic strips can also be collected in books. Some comic strip creators publish in... full article at wikipedia