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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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Posted: 21 June 2026 at 12:56pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

I was a teenager reading about Michelangelo when I first discovered that "cartoon" did not originally refer to Bugs Bunny.

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Posted: 21 June 2026 at 1:07pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

< 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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Posted: 21 June 2026 at 1:15pm \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

A tendency to shoot from the lip…..

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