Sarasota Arts & Culture Magazine - September/October 2007 - (Page 32) JanSpangler Photo by Salvatore Brancifort Jan Spangler always has a tickle up her sleeve. The lilt in her voice radiates as she picks up the telephone, and her gracious giggle is an evidentiary clue that this cartoonist defines joy when it comes to life. “I’m a cartoon character myself,” she chuckles. Out of her entire collection of illustrated characters spanning the last 15 years, only one has she copyrighted: Survivor Girl, the illustrated version of herself. “I was always a doodler,” she explains. “When I wasn’t on horseback, I was doodling funny notes to people. They began asking me to create things like invitations and fliers.” A 20-year-old proposition by a little church on Beneva Road was Spangler’s first introduction to creating cartoons for sale. The surprised artist who claimed her work “was not real art” realized if she saved a year’s worth of work, she could sell it all in one art show. “I wished I could paint a house, or a tree, or a dog, and make it look real instead of like a cartoon. One of the women in my prayer group is a real artist and she told me to quit whining about the gift God gave me,” she laughs. “So 20 years ago, I quit whining.” Perhaps because Spangler is such a colorful persona herself, all of her illustrated characters have very marked personalities. For instance, her Pinkie, a rather hefty little girl, is always naked and named for “her little pink fanny,” she says. “When I give them specific traits, it helps me make them more alive on paper.” Out of all the characters Spangler has cartooned over the years, she has only copyrighted Survivor Girl. “Survivor Girl is me,” she explains. She popped a bottle of champagne for July 7, the five year anniversary for the double mastectomy that placed her into the 82nd percentile of women who have survived five years of breast cancer. “The women in my family were gobbled up by cancer,” she says. “I thought I would never have 32 : : arts and culture magazine
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