Bored Panda reached out to Marc Bilgrey to learn more about his creative process and artistic journey. We wanted to know how he got started with cartoons and what inspired him to create them. "I was inspired to draw cartoons by the many people who have won the Nobel Prize for cartooning, such as… uh… um… er… and then there’s…," the artist joked. "Actually, I was really inspired by the great cartoonists and humorists of the last one hundred years. When I first started, I drew many panels and then eventually wound up with just one."
Bilgrey shared that he gets his ideas from an old man who lives atop a mountain and whispers them in his ear—every other Tuesday. "The real answer is much less interesting. My inspiration comes from daily life, along with the odd and absurd things that we humans say and do."
We asked the artist if he could walk us through his creative process. "Whenever I hear the word 'process', I think of a certain kind of cheese. I draw my cartoons with a pencil on a piece of paper. Then, I go over the pencil lines with an ink pen. The main difference between my cartoons and cave paintings is that I draw slightly fewer wooly mammoths."
While creating is exciting, the creative process comes with its own challenges. For Bilgrey, the biggest challenge is building an entire world with just a few drawn lines, a handful of words, and somehow making it amusing. "This is ultimately done through magic which I myself don't fully understand. What I do understand, is that my cartoon books and prose novels are available on Amazon/Kindle."
