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Posted: 21 June 2026 at 10:02am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
According to what I was taught at ACA, the original use of “cartoon” was to describe the preliminary sketches for a painting.

Like so many words/terms the use expanded over the centuries.

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I was a teenager reading about Michelangelo when I first discovered that "cartoon" did not originally refer to Bugs Bunny.
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< Byrne is both boastful and modest >

Hmm. A whole lot more the latter rather than the former, if these two adjectives must be applied.

Mostly, he just comes off as... honest.

If a comicbook he worked on was good, he'll say it. But if he feels the credit must be shared or even be more attributable to other people, other factors, he'll say that too.

Honest to a fault, sometimes, maybe?
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A tendency to shoot from the lip…..
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Brahms was famously like that and thus used to leave social gatherings with polite bow, announcing, "and should I have forgotten to insult anyone, then I ask for forgiveness!"
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I am leaving on a cruise Tuesday, likely before the mail would arrive. 

Very poor planning on my part!

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Enjoy the cruise!  (Where are you headed?)

As for me, I get mine on Wednesday!
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I can't read the article. The site keeps refreshing.

I look forward to reading these volumes. I was there when these pages first started appearing. Fun stuff!
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