The funniest cartoons are those created on a spontaneous basis and illustrated as fast as possible. This way you put a better emphasis on what you feel you want to convey in your image.

Cartooning is in bred and is intuitive. Cartoonists are born….not created. So many times it’s been chosen as a “career choice” by those who feel they can compete with those being published.
In all honesty and in no uncertain terms can cartooning be taken lightly. It takes years of practice, hours upon hours of devotion and time spent sketching, using various types of pens and ink pens and cartridge pens to find the right tool in order for the “artist” to express himself.

Many cartoonists never find the right tool, the pen they are most comfortable with. Some cartooning professionals will try brushes like a camel hair brush….good for making bolder lines. Other artists use “crowquill” pens or the type of pen tip that is required to dip into an inkwell or bottle of ink. Some cartoon artists use markers or pens which embellish in indelible (non erasable) ink.

The best and most successful cartoonists are those who realize at a young or early age that they want to become a cartoon illustrator.
Some cartoonists begin their careers as serious illustrators who gradually accept the fact that doing silly pictures and drawings like caricatures are their life’s calling. The best tip in becoming a cartoonist is to devote 99.9% of your life and time to this profession by continually sketching and drawing and refining and building on your adapted drawing style.

Never quit, and never stop drawing….keep all of your old sketches so you can look back at what you’ve created and years later, you can see how much you have improved. It is never easy because a style is not “born”….it is inherently built upon by your own god-given drawing ability and talent! Cartoonists like Bob Zahn never quit. He eventually began to sell many of his greeting card illustrations to big greeting card companies like Amberley Greetings and American Greetings. His gag panel cartoons eventually found their way onto the pages of such magazines as Good Housekeeeping, Readwer’s Digest and even Playboy magazine.