Jump Start is one of my three most favorite comic strips, and this one is great. The whole strip is specific, yet universal. And it’s so well written and drawn, with memorable characters. My father was a cartoonist and comics historian and he once pointed out two things: the evolution of black characters in strips and the difficulty many cartoonists had in drawing black people. He said that printing technology advances helped turn caricatures into characters.
Jump Start is one of my three most favorite comic strips, and this one is great. The whole strip is specific, yet universal. And it’s so well written and drawn, with memorable characters. My father was a cartoonist and comics historian and he once pointed out two things: the evolution of black characters in strips and the difficulty many cartoonists had in drawing black people. He said that printing technology advances helped turn caricatures into characters.