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Sometimes The Simpsons, sometimes anime—cartoons were L. Song Wu’s introduction to art. When she was 6, she would watch her older sister do art assignments and then imitate them. By fourth grade she was making her own cartoons and manga. “I really enjoyed the narrative,” she says. Her dream of being a professional comic artist…

Stephanie Guo finds plenty of comedy in the small interactions that fill an ordinary day. Her “Little Note Comics” revolve around relationship habits, household negotiations, affectionate teasing, and the wonderfully confusing behavior of dogs. The strips are simple and direct, with expressive characters and dialogue that gets to the joke quickly. Even when a comic…

Sometimes, a small creative experiment can lead an artist in an entirely new direction. That is what happened to Anselmo A. Peretto, an Italian-Brazilian cartoonist based in Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, who spends his days working in software development and his free time drawing. After years of creating polished, colorful comic strips with recurring characters, Peretto…

Movie posters, trailers, and sequels often get parodied, but relatively few cartoonists have found a way to reinvent the movies themselves. That’s exactly what Mark Parisi has been doing for decades. Instead of spoofing famous actors or iconic scenes, the creator of the award-winning Off The Mark comic strip imagines how blockbuster films might look if they were made…

Doja Cat has built a career that thrives on unpredictability, blending music, fashion, and internet culture into a style that is uniquely her own. Born Amala Dlamini in Los Angeles, she grew up surrounded by creativity. Her mother worked as a graphic designer, her grandmother was a painter, and her father had a background in…