Clipart Collections of Cartoon Characters, Royalty Free Clip Art and Stock Illustrations, Graphics for Logo Design
Cartoon Clipart


Clip Art Cartoon Set of Real Estate House Football Cartoon Clipart, Sports Clipart
Clipart Real Estate House Clipart Set Clipart Football Jumping
Cartoon Chili Pepper Pointing Up, Food & Restaurant Clipart Green Leaf, Go Green Clipart, Cartoon Clipart
Chili Pepper Pointing Up Clipart Clipart Green Leaf Sitting
Cartoon Computer, Business Clipart Palm Tree, Travel & Entertainment Clipart
Clipart Computer confused Clipart Palm Tree With Arms Open
Eye Ball, Cartoon Clipart Medical & Healthcare Clipart Cartoon Bumble Bee, Animal & Insect Clipart
Clipart Eye Ball Pointing At You Bumble Bee Pointing Up Clipart
Water Drop Character, Science & Nature Clipart Cartoon Taco, Food & Restaurant Clipart
Clipart Water Drop Pointing At You Clipart Taco With Hands Out
Cartoon Clipart Basketball, Sports Clipart Cartoon Dog, Animals & Insects Clipart, Pet Clipart, Dog clipart
Basketball Flexing Muscles Clipart Clipart Dog Welcoming
Clip Art of Cartoon Baby Walking Cartoon Clipart Cross, Christian Clipart
Cartoon Baby walking Clipart Cross Pointing At You
Cartoon Clipart Baseball, Sports Clipart Cartoon Bumble Bee, Animal & Insect Clipart
Baseball Running Clipart Cartoon Bumble Bee Logo Design Graphic 3
Ice Cream Cone, Food Clipart, Cartoon Clipart Apple Character, Part of Food & Restaurant Clipart Set
Clipart Ice Cream Cone Pointing Up Apple Character Waving - Food Clipart Clip Art
Cartoon TShirt, Shirt Printing & Design Clipart Cartoon Chef Hat, Food & Restaurant Clipart
Clipart TShirt Sitting Chef Hat With Heart Clipart
Here you'll find more than 100 stock characters and each comes in its own clip art set so you can build a robust marketing or brand building campaign around them. Each set features the character in a variety of useful graphic designs and poses, including holiday themes for Halloween, Christmas, Independence Day and Thanksgiving. There are also graphic versions dedicated to common business themes. Graphic examples include: holding a fist full of dollar bills to portray value, holding a magnifying glass to project quality, running to portray speed, flexing muscles to portray power or strength. There's even a graphic with the character holding the phone which is often used beside the phone number or on vehicle signage. You also get a character holding a blank sign that you can fill with your own message or graphic. Graphic logo templates are also available with many of the characters. All you have to do is add your company name and you have a professionally designed logo graphic.

Browse our site, and if you don't see the graphic you need, call us at 816-246-9530. We'll be glad to help you with a custom character or graphic. Our parent company (Thompson Advertising, Inc.) is also a full service ad agency, so if you need help with Web design, graphic design, brochure development or any other type of marketing project, our friendly, helpful staff is glad to help you out.

Advertising characters have a long history of building strong brands. Some are more than 100 years old. Think of all the advertising characters that have been the cornerstone for some of the strongest brands in American history. The M & M characters, the Jolly Green Giant, the Keebler Elves, Sonny the Coocoo bird, Tony the Tiger, Little Ceasar's Roman Emperor, the Domino Pizza Noid, and the incredibly annoying and creepy Burger King King.

One of the oddities about advertising characters is that there is no universal term widely recognized and used to identify this incredibly powerful marketing tool. They can be called a brand mascot, a marketing mascot, advertising character, advertising mascot, brand building character, advertising character or even advertising icon. In fact there is an advertising icon museum dedicated to this type of character. It's called the Advertising Icon Museum and it's located right here in my home town of Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded by Bob Bernstein, the guy who invented the Happy Meal for McDonalds. His story about where he got the idea is quite typical of how a lot of creative ideas are born. It was a borrowed idea. He was sitting at the breakfast table with his son one morning, thinking about what he needed to do, and noticed his son reading the back of a box of cereal. Bingo! Why not package a kids lunch in a box with interesting games printed on the outside? And the rest is history.

I got my start with cartoon brand mascot working with the M&M characters. What a great brand that is! I cut my teeth in this business working with the best creative teams. It's really helped me understand what goes into an effective brand mascot, and each of my characters features all the subtleties that I found works best. Big eyes, friendly smiles, simple construction - so they reproduce well at small and large sizes. There's more to it than that, but it gives you an idea. You'll notice that none of my characters are creepy. They are delightful, fun, friendly and endearing. To me, that's a winning combination any company can benefit from. So if you are looking for us to do edgy, sarcastic, creepy characters, keep waiting. We're going to stay with what we know works.

Even though cartoon characters seem relatively simple in structure, I maintain cartooning is one of the most challenging and truly creative art forms. As a young artist, I learned how to make things look accurate - a realistic representation. To me that was no more challenging than needlepoint. All I had to do is use my hands to recreate exactly what I saw. Photorealistic art is really more an exercise in patience and determination. That's my opinion and I'm sure there are some art experts who'd disagree. But no one can dispute that cartooning is very interpretive and individualistic in styles. Every cartoonist has a distinct style. I don't even know where my comes from but I know that I can see it in things I drew as a kid, and that was more years ago than I care to admit. By brother is an artist too, and I can spot his work from a mile away. It just has a certain look, and I can't put my finger on it. Cartooning requires that you let loose of 99% of reality. I often tell my staff that they have to remember "anything is possible in the cartoon world." It's a tough jump to make. It's a big creative leap. It's one thing to say you want a pink cartoon hippo wearing a leather tutu, juggling flaming avacados while singing Camp Town Races. It's another to actually visualize it, and yet another to actually capture it on paper to a client's satisfaction. That's what we do.