Tom Bunk
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Tom Bunk is a cartoonist known for adding multiple extraneous details in his art. Born in Split, Croatia, in 1945, he studied stage design and fine art at the Academy of Arts in Hamburg, Germany. In 1973, he moved to Berlin, where he began rendering humorous subjects in oil paintings. After selling these paintings in three successful shows, he turned to cartooning and contributed to underground comics in 1976.
His cartoon creations appeared monthly in the satirical magazine Pardon, other European comic magazines and comic anthologies. After collecting his comics in three books, he moved to New York in 1983 and began drawing for Raw, the graphic story magazine edited and published by Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. He drew Topps trading cards, including Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids. In 1993, he became a regular Mad cartoonist, and his contributions have led some to regard him as the modern-day replacement at Mad for Will Elder.
He continues to do humorous and surreal oil paintings of strange situations and subjects, as he notes:
- In my paintings, I am interested in telling a story. I like the story to be open ended and enigmatic. It should have an internal truth, which the viewer will recognize in his/her own way. As elements in my storytelling, I use symbols and their arrangement. I like everyday objects to have a meaning beyond the obvious, a metaphysical meaning. When I paint I try to keep a balance between my intellect, my intuition and my somewhat humouristic approach. In this way I keep the painting always interesting and alive for me. This is also what I would like the painting to be for the viewer, a stimulating and entertaining puzzle.
His list of American clients also includes Burger King, Byron Preiss, Silly Productions, Springer International and Unicef. His clients in Germany: Carlsen Verlag, Ravensburger Verlag, Semmel Verlach, Volksverlag and Weissmann Verlag. In addition to doing book covers, he also has illustrated for children's books and high school textbooks. For well over a decade, he has contributed to Quantum, a bimonthly science and mathematics magazine for students.
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