Beginning and experienced cartoonists will prize this user-friendly guide. Generously illustrated, it abounds in tips on techniques such as pen and brush handling, patterns, coloring, and attaining perspective. Drawing specifics include helpful hints on depicting people, animals, expressions, and clothing, how to indicate motion and movement, and the use of props. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1960.
Learn to Draw Comics by George Leonard Carlson This user-friendly guide from the 1930s offers wealth of practical advice, with abundant illustrations and nontechnical prose. Creating expressions, attaining proportion, applying perspective, depicting anatomy, simple shading, achieving consistency, characterization, more.
The Art of Cartooning by Roy Paul Nelson Tips for using proper tools and techniques; suggestions for drawing the human figure, animals, and backgrounds; how to create comic strips and editorial cartoons. 75 illustrations.
The Bear That Wasn't by Frank Tashlin A hibernating bear awakens to find himself smack dab in the middle of a sprawling industrial complex where people think he's just a silly man who wears a fur coat. 46 illustrations.
Cartooning, Caricature and Animation Made Easy by Chuck Thorndike This treasury of illustrated step-by-step instructions is rich in the period style of the 1920s and '30s. It features practical advice on depicting faces, motion, anatomy, caricatures, animated features, and political cartoons.
