Art For Art’s Sake #217: Take A Look At Yourself

Welcome once more to Art For Art’s Sake, the weekly wonder/wander around the Internet in search of nuggets of cartooning gold… this week it’s Cartoonist Self-Portraits

Sometimes Art For Art’s Sake will be a collection of random brilliance, sometimes it will be some random, some themed, maybe with an artist focus at the end. And at other times, I’ll see something and think, oh, I’d like to add a fair load of those at some point to the end of an Art For Art’s Sake and off I go down the rabbit hole only to emerge with way, way, way too many images. Have a guess which one this is?

It’s cartoonist and comic artists self-portraits and it’s quite long…

Bill Watterson –

Ronald Searle

Alison Bechdel

Darwyn Cooke – 

Daniel Clowes

Julie Douchet

Seth – 

Harvey Kurtzman

Art Spiegelman – 

Jaime (Xaime) Hernandez

Trina Robbins

Paul Pope

Charles Schultz.

Pete Bagge

Michael Cho

Roberta Gregory

Rachael Smith 

Oliver East

Masamune Shirow

Dave Stevens

Will Eisner

Gene Colan 

Moebius – 

George Herriman – 

Walt Simonson

Al Williamson

Wally Wood 

Frank Frazetta – 

Hal Foster –

Gil Kane

Matt Kindt

John Cei Douglas 

Steve Ditko – 

Barry Windsor-Smith (before he was BWS)

Alex Raymond –

Robert Crumb – 

Walt Kelly 

John Bryne – 

Neal Adams –

Jordi Bernet

John Buscema

Sal Buscema

Russ Heath 

Jack Kirby

Craig Yoe

Joe Kubert

John Romita Sr.

Ward Kimball 

Alex Toth – 

Will Elder

Milt Caniff

Chester Brown

Joe Matt

James Turner

Hope Larson

Simon Moreton

Rob Davis

Sammy Borras

And to end with, another from Joe Matt… featuring Chester Brown and Seth… a warning to all you comic makers out there…