Shtikl Cartoons by Dushan Wegner

"My name is Dushan Wegner, 31, former Journalist, author of a book on Videojournalism and now student of philosophy in Cologne, Germany. After years of work with Flash and other visual gimmicks in the Dotcom industry and some time in TV fostering the DV-Revolution, I have rediscovered the joy of studying philosophy, writing stories and drawing little semi-philosophical cartoons with pen and paper.

I must confess to be quite cliché on this. My favourite contemplating place is some coffee parlor where they need seven words to describe one cup of beverage. But coffee the price of a third world monthly income makes me feel cozy inside, a feeling best accompanied by a book, or my fake Moleskine and a pen.

I use the original Moleskine calendar and pocket book, but not the sketchpad. That is for two reasons: I want white pages, so crispy white that I still can hear the tree falling into an unduly death. And there is the price issue as well, as the local art supply store sells fake Moleskines for half the price of the original. (And what is "original" anyway, talking about oilcloth covered notebooks?)

For the cartoons you see on www.shtikl.com I use a 0.3 Copic fine pen and color the pics later with Copic Ciao markers. In the recent cartoons I used mainly E00 (skin) and C-3 (light grey). I scan the pics in, leaving the paper's edges visible. (I had been doing some experiments with Wacom, but for me it only works for corrections. Its results seem so sterile.) The only Photoshop work I have done on the newest stuff is contrast and brightness."

Dushan Wegner
Creator of Shtikl Cartoons

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Comments

[Dushan]

Thanks, folks. Hope you enjoy the stuff on Sthikl.com!

Moleskinerie for sure has become a daily read for me. And I like the sidetracks too, like e.g. the Daniel Pearl article.

Greets
Dushan

[indeterminacy]

I've been following Shtikl since almost the beginning and have enjoyed it immensely. Nice to read something about Dushan himself in his own words.