The Frustrated Cartoonist – At 100
Our final selection is from Nate Fakes. He draws, might draw, used to draw the Frustrated Cartoonist. Hell, I don’t know. You see Nate has hit the big time with Mad Magazine as well and will have a recurring strip going forward. He swears that doesn’t mean the end of his Frustrated Cartoonist character Jim, but given how he drew him at 100, I think it might be a sign.
The Frustrated Cartoonist is Jim who longs to be like Nate and actually get paid to do his craft. Yet like all of us frustrated cartoonists, he has to manage a day job to pay the bills. That and his girlfriend and neighbors seem to cut into actual cartooning time. Anyone who has ever had a hobby that they eventually wanted to become a career will relate.
So I give you the slow progression of age of Jim.
So thanks Nate and thanks to all the great cartoonists for helping me out. I look forward to reading all the comments.
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September 8, 2009 at 7:26 am
hopefully Nate isn’t about to do this in TFC!
September 8, 2009 at 7:53 am
We can hope that Jim needs to age into that oldest version of … Jimness (and at a much slower rate) on TFC before the party is over!
September 8, 2009 at 9:45 am
Nice age progression! Dark as well. I’d recommend doing a skull in the end. That would be darker. What’s wrong with me.
September 8, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Oh dear. That was my thought too. Dark thoughts.
September 11, 2009 at 12:25 am
Yet again, I’m in good company. I thought so too.
September 8, 2009 at 10:32 am
Wow! That looks like a believable version of a geriatric Jim.
September 8, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I didn’t know a cartoonist’s head shrinks with age…I thought it got bigger
September 9, 2009 at 8:14 am
Thanks Bearman for posting my aging Jim, and thank you guys for enjoying it. Jim’s going through a rough area of his strip right now, but he’ll either bounce back, or else his head will shrivel up and shrink like depicted above.
September 11, 2009 at 12:26 am
RIP TFC. Say it ain’t so, Nate! Jim’s outlook isn’t looking so good.
September 14, 2009 at 7:56 am
There’s a lot of rumors out there (most of them from me) but I don’t think Jim’s head is going to shrink like that – yet.