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About our new look

As you may have noticed, the ECC Cartoonbooks Club blog has a new look. That’s because we—along with a other Google blogs—are trying out a new set of Blogger templates called Dynamic Views.

Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience that makes it easier and faster for readers to explore blogs in interactive ways. We’re using the Flipcard view, but you can also preview this blog in any of the other six new views by using the view selection bar at the top left of the screen.

Below are most of the views you can choose now to read your favourite cartoon book article.

What's a cartoon? Cartoon genres part 1

As with other art forms, there are many different cartoon styles and types. In the first part of this article we take a look at the definition of a cartoon, in a second part, we will present an overview of most cartoon styles. Please mail us your suggestions or remarks  to ecc.cartoonbooks@gmail.com.

What's a cartoon? 

This is what Wikipedia says about the word cartoon:

"The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The artists who draw cartoons are known as cartoonists.

The term has evolved over time. The original meaning was in fine art, where cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting or tapestry. The modern meaning refers to both humorous illustrations in print and animated films. Even more recently, there are several contemporary meanings, including creative visual work for electronic media and animated digital media. When the word cartoon is applied to print media, it most often refers to a humorous single-panel drawing or gag cartoon, most of which have typeset captions rather than speech balloons. The word cartoon is sometimes used to refer to a comic strip,[1] and it can also refer to a humorous illustration for fiction or nonfiction published in newspapers and magazines."

Other definitions are: (source: google dictionary)

cartoon

• A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, esp. a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine
• A comic strip
• A simplified or exaggerated version or interpretation of something
  • this movie is a cartoon of rural life in America
  • Dolores becomes a cartoon housewife, reading glossy magazines in a bathrobe
• A motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects
• A full-size drawing made by an artist as a preliminary design for a painting or other work of art.
  
  

  
  

  caricature

• A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect
• The art or style of such exaggerated representation
  • there are elements of caricature in the portrayal of the hero
• A ludicrous or grotesque version of someone or something
  • he looked like a caricature of his normal self
    
    

What does cartoon and caricature mean for ECC Cartoonbooks Club? 

The 'core business' of our blog does not include comic strip or comics and animated cartoons nor books about these subjects. Other blogs and websites will inform you about this matter.

To keep it simple, this is what we understand under 'cartoon' and 'caricature':

• cartoon

  A (simple) drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously (exaggerated) way.

  • caricature
• A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

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40.000 visitors

Today we welcomed the 40.000th visitor on our blog. He or she came from the UK.

Thanks for visiting us and I hope you still enjoy the wonderfull world of cartoon books.

Jan

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Best wishes

Thanks to all cartoonists and cartoon friends who sent or mailed us their best wishes!
Please take a look at the beautiful cards and cartoons here.
Also take a look at Best Wishes 2.

Jean-Marie's nice card, cartoon by Mofrey

3000 visitors

Today the 3000th visitor visited our weblog. Statcounter counted 6224 pageloads and people from over 50 different countries visited us. Thanks to all cartoon (book) lovers for passing by!

If you have any suggestions or remarks on this blog please let me know!

Knokke-Heist Catalogues for sale!

I am happy to announce that, for registrated members of our little club, we have a special offer. Registration is easy and free!
To expand your cartoonbook collection or to give a nice present to a relative or friend, you can buy some high-quality new catalogues of the Knokke-Heist Cartoon Festival (Belgium) at a very low price.
You can order the catalogue editions of 1989-1990-1991-1992-1993/2001-2002-2003-2005-2006-2007/and "Cartoons na '60" (a selection of best cartoons at the festval since 1960) - see cartoon file below
In collaboration with Uitgeverij Davidsfonds Leuven (publisher of the books since 1967) we can offer these books at an exceptionnal price and even less if you buy at least 3 of it (packages of 3 books). The most recent catalogues of 2006 and 2007 cost 12 and 13 eur (20% off the normal price). Older far less! Note: +shipping!
The books will be sent after payment to the publisher Davidsfonds with international bank transfer(EEC)
The orders are placed directly with the publisher.

Interested? Send me a mail. I'll mail you what you have to do to order.

Congratulations Pol Leurs!

Pol Leurs (Luxemburg) won the third prize "Bronze Hat" at the famous International Cartoon Festival Knokke-Heist 2008. Pol has also a cartoonbook collection and already joined our ECC Cartoonbooks club.
Please visit his brand new website Poleurscartoons and enjoy his cartoons.
Click to see award winning cartoon.

21.780 cartoonbooks and a Happy New Year

One month after the start of the ECC Cartoonbooks Club, I am happy to tell that our first members have, all together, at least a collection of 18.780 cartoonbooks. When I consider the collection of the ECC, another 3.000 books, I come to a number of 21.780 cartoonbooks: 2 1 7 8 0 ! To be honest, I must admit that amongst our members there are some "big" and "very very big" collectors. If you only have a relative "small" collection or if you just started collecting: don't be overwhelmed by all these numbers.
It just tells us that, and that's the point, you can reckon on the expertise and help of our members and relations when you want to know anything about cartoonbooks. Just ask us any question about cartoonbooks or blog article, and we'll search for you the answer.

Above all I want to thank all the people I corresponded with the last months: collectors, especially JM Bertin, cartoonists, people of the ECC in Kruishoutem. Their friendship was and is is a genuine stimulus.

I hope that in 2008 more cartoonbook lovers will join our Club. Cartoonbooks collecting brings together people from many countries. We already have members in Cuba, Thailand, Turkey, France, Germany, Holland, Luxemburg, Belgium... and people from about 30 countries visited our blog.

So if you are a cartoon lover too, let us know and join the Club now!

Happy and Funny 2008!

Comments and Discussions

Please participate and comment and discuss the articles.
To view or to give comments or to start discussions click on the link below the article!

这是为什么的weblog英文？

The humor of cartoons is universal, especially when we are talking about captionless cartoons, caricature or humorphotos.
As most of us do not speak chinese, we prefer to write items and comments in english, so most people can read and understand the texts. If the english language is a true problem to you, you can write us also in Dutch, French or German. We'll understand, but many readers will not.
For that reason, we suggest writing in english.
To help you a bit, there's a link to google translate on the blog. Translation is not 100%, but it helps.

The Cartoonbook Files

To inform our readers the best way about cartoonbooks I introduced the “cartoonbook file”.
Additional to a blog post, we can link to an appropriate file called “cartoonbook file” where you get information about the book’s features. Those features are: title, author, cartoonist(s), a picture of the book, ISBN, publication year, publisher, language, number of pages, cartoons, cartoons per page, themes, kind of book, kind of cartoons and so on. In fact it’s a screenprint of a template in my Access 2007 cartoonbook collection database.
In this way information is available in a consistent way.
Any suggestions about the file are welcome.
Important:
We are intended to publish a cartoonbook file for every book we are to review in the blog. For that reason we need of course those data. If you want to review a book, you’ll have to send us the book information. To make ik easy, we made a book review form. Just fill in all data and we’ll do the rest to publish the file. The review will be in the blog, the file on a linked location.

[Click to go to cartoonbook file directory and see some examples]

Blog Charter

The purpose of this blog is to share information about cartoonbooks and cartoonbooks collecting for cartoonbooks collectors and cartoon lovers. We work together with the European Cartoon
Center Kruishoutem, Belgium. ECC Cartoonbooks Club wants to explore the world of cartoonbooks, share the pleasure of cartoonbook collecting and unite all cartoonbooks collectors Everyone is welcome to participate: collectors, beginning collectors, cartoon lovers, cartoonists, sympathizers...
Topics may be: cartoonbook reviews, new books, tips for collectors , collections, interviews, links to information about the books and its authors. The blog’s language is English. Comments may be in English, Dutch, French or German even though we prefer English comments because most people are able to understand English (we hope so). The blog is run by volunteers, without having any commercial goal. Of course, publishers may send us new books to comment. We will review the book and link to the site of the publisher or cartoonist. Books to review may be sent to:

ECC Cartoonbooks Club
pa. Jan Oplinus - Oude Tramweg 27 - B8560 Wevelgem - Belgium

Posting Guidelines for Club Members

Posts and comments on cartoonbooks and cartoonbook collecting are particularly welcome. As “cartoons” may be a broad topic, don't be afraid to bring up something fresh, so long as that topic is reasonably clear in your posted article or comment. For reasons of copyright, we can’t publish cartoons, unless we have a written permission from the editor or cartoonist to publish the drawing. Showing a picture of a book cover is ok.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

Please direct to Jan Oplinus, at ecc.cartoonbooks@gmail.com.

Thank you, and welcome to the ECC Cartoonbooks Club Blog!

We officially start december 1, 2007 !!!

Cartoon lover, cartoonbooks collectioner:
Please bookmark our blog. Our blog's official starting date is the first week of december 2007!

It's...

... the ECC Cartoonbooks Club.

"Just like practicing sports becomes more fun as one gets better trained and making music or painting gives more satisfaction as one masters the technique better, thus unfolds the hobby cartoonbook collecting its charms in the broadest way to the collector who knows more about context, who developes one's skills for gathering what one desires, and has more eye for hidden consistency in the many apparition forms of cartoons, caricature, cartoonbooks, etc. Thus one develops from saver to collector."

If you are a cartoonbooks collector, you're on the right spot! Whether your collection counts 5 or 500 books, whether your age is 9 or 99, you are welcome.

ECC Cartoonbooks Club wants to explore the world of cartoonbooks, share the pleasure of cartoonbook collecting and unite cartoonbooks collectors to share their hobby.