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by Arlene Wright-Correll

This week’s Kentucky artist is Rachel Thompson

Rachel Thompson is a 15 year old cartoonist, a native of Hart County and Munfordville who is also a sophomore at Hart County High School.

She started to draw in the 8th grade and soon discovered she liked to draw the Japanese cartoons better than anything else. Rachel took 2 semesters of art in high school and has developed at least 10 of her own characters.

She always tries to create her own storylines whether from imagination or inspiration. One of her goals is to create her own Manga which is a Japanese comic book which is read from right to left.

Manga (Pronounced Mahn-ga) is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons. Outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and foreign styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II. It comes mainly in black and white, except for the covers and sometimes the first few pages. Popular manga is often adapted into anime (Japanese for animation) once a market interest has been established. (Manga is sometimes mistakenly called "anime" even when not animated.) Adapted stories are often modified to appeal to a more mainstream market. Although not as common, original anime is sometimes adapted into manga (such as Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop).

One of her characters is named Rieka Taouchi which is ½ human and ½ demon form and you can see her in one of Rachel’s cartoons shown here.

Rachel is quite adept at creating this type of strip and though she knows quite a lot about it she realizes she has to learn a lot more including just the basics of art. She says one of the things she dislikes is drawing on demand, which is something most art courses teach in their lesson plan. She enjoys the spontaneous action of her story line cartoon characters.

For the past 4 or 5 years Rachel has enjoyed playing the clarinet in the Hart County High School band. She also loves to sing and does a lot of it in her church. Another one of her favorite pastimes is doing impersonations of cartoon characters.

In the future we need to keep our eyes open for this young artist as this writer feels she may achieve her artistic goals.

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(Contact Arlene Wright-Correll at 270 524 9567 or email her at askarlene@scrtc.com  if you want to be next week’s column of Who’s Who in KY Art’s and Crafts)