The idea of being paid to draw cartoons appealed to Hands, and the gig didn’t seem like too much work. Thirty years later, Hands, the political cartoonist and assistant opinion editor at the Wisconsin ...

Wisconsin State Journal cartoonist Phil Hands will draw his cartoon live and talk about his work during a Facebook event Tuesday.

Until the advent of computer animation, every image was drawn by hand. Drawing ... important design reason for the look. Unlike those of human characters, the hands and bodies of cartoon animals ...

One strange quirk about animation is that cartoon characters more often ... For one thing, it simply makes hands easier to draw. In the era of hand-drawn animation, having one less digit on ...

Many early cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, had four fingers for aesthetic reasons. Animators used circles when sketching bodies, heads, and hands, and circular palms weren ...