Art must adapt to its medium. I never saw a butt-mimeo, but as soon as there was a xerox machine, they started showing up. Mimeos were used to propagate “purity test” as well as the joke about shop rates if we do it, if you watch, or if you help.
You could probably draw lines, like an etching or a woodcut, to do the drawing. I remember some of the mimeos we got where the teacher drew on the stencil. It’d still be kinda ugly.
When someone asks for cartooning advice, there’s a good chance I’ll tell them to get their work published wherever anyone will publish it, because knowing strangers — or more intimidating yet, friends and enemies — are going to see your work has a way of focusing your mind.
When I was a kid, as the son of a teacher and church music director, that meant in a lot of mimeographed publications. So to this day I’m a little astonished I didn’t end up in a whole different field, because there was no way to be proud of your own mimeographed artwork. You had to dig trenches into the stencil with that crude stylus, which doesn’t lend itself to even the most basic control, let alone anything approaching finesse. And whatever you did come up with, whatever quality it had deteriorated inexorably the more copies that were made.
But I did it, and here I am. I don’t know if that taught me persistence or humility, but I’m pretty sure it has something to do with why I’m so unenthusiastic about looking at my old artwork.
Gary Fabian over 4 years ago
Naw, do it free hand with the help of a willing friend.
Concretionist over 4 years ago
Art must adapt to its medium. I never saw a butt-mimeo, but as soon as there was a xerox machine, they started showing up. Mimeos were used to propagate “purity test” as well as the joke about shop rates if we do it, if you watch, or if you help.
Uncle Bob over 4 years ago
Nobody remembers how intoxicating the mimeo sheet aroma was…
mridenour over 4 years ago
Brought to you by Fast Times…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu3iCvAQCHg
ksu71 over 4 years ago
Mimeograph or Spirit Duplicator?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicating_machines
cervelo over 4 years ago
Frazz’s recycling bin looks more like a filing box with the sheets all neatly lined up.
1MadHat Premium Member over 4 years ago
You could probably draw lines, like an etching or a woodcut, to do the drawing. I remember some of the mimeos we got where the teacher drew on the stencil. It’d still be kinda ugly.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
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When someone asks for cartooning advice, there’s a good chance I’ll tell them to get their work published wherever anyone will publish it, because knowing strangers — or more intimidating yet, friends and enemies — are going to see your work has a way of focusing your mind.
When I was a kid, as the son of a teacher and church music director, that meant in a lot of mimeographed publications. So to this day I’m a little astonished I didn’t end up in a whole different field, because there was no way to be proud of your own mimeographed artwork. You had to dig trenches into the stencil with that crude stylus, which doesn’t lend itself to even the most basic control, let alone anything approaching finesse. And whatever you did come up with, whatever quality it had deteriorated inexorably the more copies that were made.
But I did it, and here I am. I don’t know if that taught me persistence or humility, but I’m pretty sure it has something to do with why I’m so unenthusiastic about looking at my old artwork.