Funny Business - An Inside Look at the Art of Cartooning

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Little Goat Productions’ documentary Funny Business is the first feature length, insider look at some of the best known cartoonists for the venerable New Yorker magazine. The film won a CINE Golden Eagle Award for excellence in filmmaking. It has been shown in venues throughout New York City, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was broadcast on WNET, WLIW as well as a variety of PBS stations across the country.
See the film's website FunnyBusinessFilm.com for more information.

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  • @anthonymorales842
    @anthonymorales842 Жыл бұрын

    What is amazing to me is how informal their work areas are. Reaching a global audience from a desk in a kitchen, pencil and paper and that's it. How remarkable

  • @chechobarada9688
    @chechobarada96887 жыл бұрын

    This bring me to tears. The world is so big and there are so many marvelous people in it.

  • @oscarcarson6215

    @oscarcarson6215

    2 жыл бұрын

    instaBlaster...

  • @felixsafire

    @felixsafire

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s exactly how I felt! Wonderful

  • @cdwc
    @cdwc2 жыл бұрын

    This is a fantastic documentary, just as much a work of art as that of all the brilliant cartoonists. Thank you for sharing it on KZread.

  • @theblastedfrench
    @theblastedfrench7 жыл бұрын

    I love finding stuff like this!!!!!!

  • @UncleLouietheMillwright
    @UncleLouietheMillwright Жыл бұрын

    Really well written and thought out. The story of a woman and her passion. Drawing is just that...Passion. Being in a well established magazine or newspaper is beyond this world but to me a mom was the best. Great to see the other cartoonists too and listening to their concepts etc. All the best in more videos on art, drawing etc.

  • @jesusrios9482
    @jesusrios9482 Жыл бұрын

    Every cartoonist in the New Yorker and in general owes you a debt of gratitude for showing how beautiful a cartoonist life is. I can have everything in the world all the money and all the materialistic things anybody would want. And feel absolutely unfulfilled without my ability to draw cartoons. And in the same breath have absolutely nothing and feel completely fulfilled simply sitting at my art table drawing cartoons. Cartoonist are poets that chose to turn letters into faces. I am a graffiti artist I've been doing graffiti since I was 8 years old. And just recently realize that this was also meant to be my life. So now I do political cartoons as a hobby. And I love it. I believe every single art piece your mother did what's more than New Yorker quality. Beautiful documentary.

  • @terrykobleck6529
    @terrykobleck65293 жыл бұрын

    I have 4 old copies of the New Yorker. From 1932, 35, 42, and 44. Most of the fancy stores advertised have closed. The plays are long gone. They don’t run cigarette ads anymore, but the cartoons are still funny.

  • @bmwresidentialdesign1711
    @bmwresidentialdesign17118 жыл бұрын

    An excellent look into the life, art and business of "The New Yorker Cartoonist". Thank you.

  • @nartarlyiatremaynne1239
    @nartarlyiatremaynne1239 Жыл бұрын

    This is beyond fabulous. Brilliant clever content. Today I learnt some thing new. Thank You ♡ Australia

  • @funwithFred
    @funwithFred2 жыл бұрын

    This made me cry so hard.........in a good way. Precious.

  • @janedoe5229
    @janedoe5229Ай бұрын

    "Wrath index: High". I REALLY liked that one. :)

  • @natevanek5647
    @natevanek56473 жыл бұрын

    I think if I watch 12 more of these it'll get me to dinner so I can avoid my chores. Loved it

  • @gokulgopalakrishnan6427
    @gokulgopalakrishnan64278 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. And thank you from a fan of New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists.

  • @tonym994
    @tonym9944 жыл бұрын

    as an aspiring cartoonist whose not a kid anymore, I am encouraged to see that a lot of still vital cartoonists here are a good deal older than me. and they're good.

  • @garydavidson1970
    @garydavidson19703 жыл бұрын

    I was very moved by these stories, thank you.

  • @melquizedec
    @melquizedec Жыл бұрын

    You know what? I´m smiling when I´m watching this documental....and I don´t smile! I´m not an easy laugh. I doodle and do some cartoon once in a while as a side job...but this ingenious one-draw cartoons are really something amazing. Appear simple but they have a lot of stuff going on, insights and art. I would love to do something like that.

  • @tonym994
    @tonym9944 жыл бұрын

    being able to draw is one thing. but when I get a decent original idea(and they don't flow like water), that's what's priceless. like the Starbucks cartoon .the draftsmanship is more than adequate, but the idea is brilliant ! FUNNY! it's actually one of the best cartoons I ever saw.

  • @gjr72
    @gjr728 жыл бұрын

    I really liked the opportunity to see the artists in the creative process and the tools they use. I was looking for something like this for long time. Thank you.

  • @TunaFreeDolphinMeat
    @TunaFreeDolphinMeat3 жыл бұрын

    43:44 The best ones that make ourselves laugh can be similar to when you are reading or watching something on an uneventful, quiet public transport ride and you suddenly laugh out loud.

  • @stevekobb3850
    @stevekobb38508 жыл бұрын

    Loved it. Fabulous show. Thank you so much for putting this film together!

  • @artmonkeys
    @artmonkeys4 жыл бұрын

    I loved watching this documentary. Bravo!

  • @christopherw.griffin3768
    @christopherw.griffin37683 жыл бұрын

    I adore this documentary so much.

  • @dopeymark
    @dopeymark2 жыл бұрын

    Exceptional documentary. Really. 💖

  • @jfilesgraphics
    @jfilesgraphics4 жыл бұрын

    This is right up my alley. I need this for inspiration.

  • @TheSubwaysurfer
    @TheSubwaysurfer5 жыл бұрын

    I loved being a cartoonist i drew editorial cartoons for The Wave newspaper in Far Rockawsy for eight years. I started when then Senator Obama was running against McCain for president. I submitted my first couple of toons for free then they hired me! Out of all my artistic accomplishments i loved cartooning tge best

  • @lulolancy

    @lulolancy

    4 жыл бұрын

    I saw your work. I love it. Do you also submit to the New Yorker magazine?

  • @mazdarex7

    @mazdarex7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey, best wishes!

  • @brianvalliere819
    @brianvalliere8198 жыл бұрын

    Wicked, Awesome! Insightful, moving and inspirational! Thank you, for this short film. And, God Bless your Mom! You, know she is smiling somewhere! :)

  • @leiferickson9225
    @leiferickson92254 жыл бұрын

    "The cartoon is an instant communication of a funny idea." Sounds like a meme to me hahaha.

  • @diegomontes3157
    @diegomontes3157 Жыл бұрын

    Ho, thanks, I just cab't watch the entire doc without losing my breath. I'm French and my English is tired.Just bravo

  • @minskmade
    @minskmade2 жыл бұрын

    What a great story and documentary. Ex cartoonist and huge fan of the NY times cartoons. great job.

  • @kenkaufmann
    @kenkaufmann3 ай бұрын

    Really beautiful job on this. Thanks

  • @APrintmaker
    @APrintmaker8 жыл бұрын

    Just wanted to say that I truly enjoyed this very personal view of cartoonists and their work. Well, that's it.

  • @TheFutureLooksGrimm

    @TheFutureLooksGrimm

    8 жыл бұрын

    Have you seen the other New Yorker documentary it's just that is great but the title is a little unique. I can't recall the name of it. I would love to see Little Goat Productions do a Charles Addams documentary. There has never been one unless you count the short 12min bio.

  • @profesorgonzalezpontiles9070
    @profesorgonzalezpontiles90703 жыл бұрын

    this is so inspiring, i have always wanted to be a cartoonist and actually right now i make cartoons freelance for a living as many know jobs in venezuela are just dreadful pay is nonexitent basically and i have made use of this passion to literally bring food to the table. :-D i´ll continue upgrading my work. if anyone reads this, work on your passion, it pays out eventually

  • @hulonthesurvivor5884
    @hulonthesurvivor58843 жыл бұрын

    This is so awesome. Truly moving story from the heart. I've decided on what I need to do to become a cartoonist.

  • @juniemarz1902
    @juniemarz19022 жыл бұрын

    This was amazing and inspiring! Thank you!

  • @rajinderchaudhry8941
    @rajinderchaudhry89412 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. You've collated so much info & put us in a time machine..to see the cartooning history,woven with emotions & nostalgia...Luv from India

  • @littlegoatproductions966

    @littlegoatproductions966

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @cartoonmark75
    @cartoonmark75 Жыл бұрын

    this is so wonderful and inspiring

  • @hurdygurdyguy1
    @hurdygurdyguy13 жыл бұрын

    I was watching a video of Bruce McCall recalling his childhood where he he says his parents had stacks of New Yorkers in their house, it was their "beacon of civilization," and I glanced down to my stack of New Yorkers 🤣 My favorite (aka easiest) character to cartoon is myself, I have many cartoons of myself in my sketchbooks where I muse about cartooning for the New Yorker which is, of course, why I will never be a cartoonist for the New Yorker 🤣🤣

  • @BobSeal
    @BobSeal8 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, thank you, thank you

  • @jonmathis
    @jonmathis2 жыл бұрын

    A lovely tribute!

  • @66quilmes
    @66quilmes2 жыл бұрын

    Great film about cartoonists. Thank you.

  • @michaelvaladez6570
    @michaelvaladez65708 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed this immensely ! I have always wanted to do a cartoon. At the age of seventy..i have the notion and idea for a two panel strip...this commentary has given me hope and inspiration. Greatly appreciated 🙏. Wish me luck...lol.

  • @jeniferdivine
    @jeniferdivine6 жыл бұрын

    thank you for this! cartooning has always been a fervent hobby of mine

  • @lulolancy

    @lulolancy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Have you given the New Yorker a try?

  • @MrParkerman6

    @MrParkerman6

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wish I was taller!

  • @rosita3671

    @rosita3671

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MrParkerman6❓❔

  • @DustinMercer
    @DustinMercer5 жыл бұрын

    you did a superb job.

  • @cuneytsonmez
    @cuneytsonmez3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot for this awesome work. I wonder why a great cartoonist like Dana Fradon was not in this. He worked for The NewYorker for about 60 years I guess.

  • @littlegoatproductions966

    @littlegoatproductions966

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @alexandervaneijken7741
    @alexandervaneijken77413 жыл бұрын

    A lot of cartoonists make me smile, George Booth makes me laugh out loud!

  • @mazdarex7
    @mazdarex73 жыл бұрын

    Will watch later. Thx so much! In 60s as a kindergarten kid would read these and I think Punch from UK, and Der Spiegel, and wonder what the hell was occurring in "the outside world". Then in 72, discovered MAD and figured it out in a few years. Along with Neil young and Simon&Garf, grand funk, Chicago, etc. Thx again. Not to thebeatle$$

  • @carolnorton2551
    @carolnorton25516 жыл бұрын

    It is neat to see the people I read every week in the New Yorker.

  • @carolnorton2551
    @carolnorton25516 жыл бұрын

    I have had an enlarged James Thurber cartoon on my wall since the '60s.

  • @ssn0651

    @ssn0651

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thurber is King !

  • @Art.ASMR-You2
    @Art.ASMR-You2 Жыл бұрын

    Lovely just so lovely 😃

  • @Awesomebuttons
    @Awesomebuttons8 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. :)

  • @raol635
    @raol6352 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @michaelbevan3285
    @michaelbevan32853 жыл бұрын

    if I got one cartoon into the New Yorker, I'd be grinning for a year.

  • @MrPhotodoc
    @MrPhotodoc Жыл бұрын

    Her mother by any measure was a successful person and that's better than being in The New Yorker.

  • @holeshothunter5544
    @holeshothunter5544 Жыл бұрын

    hey, mullet head, you sold me a book!

  • @askbob2009
    @askbob20093 жыл бұрын

    there should be a depository for all cartoons...

  • @helenarose580
    @helenarose5804 жыл бұрын

    Creativity

  • @BABEN
    @BABEN3 жыл бұрын

    @40:21 Matt Gerberg saying he's taught 15-16 years and hundreds and hundreds of students, but only 4 or 5 became successful cartoonists... How did he keep his teaching job with that success rate?

  • @Haydenthemaker1000
    @Haydenthemaker10004 жыл бұрын

    Definitely jumped out from the last song but a good documentary

  • @mateuspreis
    @mateuspreis4 жыл бұрын

    Nice story. Your mom rules!

  • @azalea1404
    @azalea14044 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful portraits of a lot of wonderful looney cartooneys. How can 12 people put their thumbs down to this production? I feel sorry for them.

  • @michaelsaunders2118
    @michaelsaunders21185 жыл бұрын

    I sent my cartoons too the New Yorker 6 months ago. Haven't heard anything from them.

  • @salcaradonna2698

    @salcaradonna2698

    5 жыл бұрын

    Since the new cartoon editor was hired, they never get back to you. She has no experience at being an editor.

  • @lulolancy

    @lulolancy

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@salcaradonna2698 Hi Sal. Have you submitted?

  • @PuppetMaster8707
    @PuppetMaster87073 жыл бұрын

    Who is Robin Hall????

  • @phantompanther648
    @phantompanther648 Жыл бұрын

    The guy them have always now....isn't here.....he draws the people's eyes like on the edge of their square heads......

  • @nalinisingh1073
    @nalinisingh1073 Жыл бұрын

    ART OF CARTOONING AND CARTONING - SIMPLE GREAT NAMES R K LAXMAN ............

  • @rebeccaduncan5366
    @rebeccaduncan5366 Жыл бұрын

    ho be home a pack rats is like it now, with some time now, when others catoons was odd and some time funnys had be into life and jobs too,

  • @1986svs05
    @1986svs055 жыл бұрын

    Reading glasses and sex glasses. lol

  • @priscillakhapai3623

    @priscillakhapai3623

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah that one was funny

  • @christianbradford8815
    @christianbradford88153 жыл бұрын

    Why no mention..of the mckay's?..husband an wife..

  • @SolMuun
    @SolMuun3 жыл бұрын

    I mean here I am, trying to do this thing and these people keep saying is that cartooning is going the way of the dodo. What's going on here?

  • @papackar
    @papackar6 жыл бұрын

    Kudos to the cartoonists and to hell with the New Yorker. That's my primary sentiment in viewing this video.

  • @sailorfan86
    @sailorfan862 жыл бұрын

    I see myself.

  • @johnlittle5422
    @johnlittle54227 жыл бұрын

    he draws bad on purpose it's he's style

  • @SuperCartoonist

    @SuperCartoonist

    7 жыл бұрын

    "he draws bad on purpose" Yeah...... on purpose.

  • @mr.creamiersteamiermemeier5919
    @mr.creamiersteamiermemeier59198 жыл бұрын

    Is it possible for a cartoon to not be some lazyly scribbled picture with a tiny bit of humor usually not even able to make you laugh (I see why stuff like Garfield is so popular)

  • @spencerflare387

    @spencerflare387

    8 жыл бұрын

    lol,I would like to make something a bit more...serious

  • @mr.creamiersteamiermemeier5919

    @mr.creamiersteamiermemeier5919

    8 жыл бұрын

    Yep.

  • @garchbrown

    @garchbrown

    7 жыл бұрын

    Very semi-serious.

  • @oldgit4260
    @oldgit42607 жыл бұрын

    I hate the term 'gag cartoonist'

  • @nobodyguy4524
    @nobodyguy45244 жыл бұрын

    It was interesting to hear from alot of former new Yorker cartoonists but annoying to hear this chicks monologues about her mom. The point is about cartoons not your mom!

  • @tomgunn8004
    @tomgunn80042 жыл бұрын

    Boring people like boring cartoons.

  • @kelguy2002
    @kelguy20022 жыл бұрын

    It’s Been 12 + Years I’ve never Seen this And It Is PERFECTION PERSONIFIED 🙏🧩Thank you ALL 🎭

  • @littlegoatproductions966

    @littlegoatproductions966

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. So glad you found us!

  • @kelguy2002

    @kelguy2002

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@littlegoatproductions966 ⭐️👍

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