Outstanding book offers beginners and professionals a complete manual for working in one of the world's liveliest art forms. Text traces origins of cartooning; furnishes tips for using proper tools and techniques; and provides suggestions for drawing the human figure, animals, and backgrounds; creating comic strips, editorial cartoons, and more. 75 illustrations. Unabridged republication of Fell’s Guide to The Art of Cartooning, originally published by Frederick Fell, Inc., New York, 1962.
You Can Draw Cartoons by Lou Darvas Generously illustrated, user-friendly guide by popular illustrator presents abundance of valuable pointers for both beginners and experienced cartoonists: pen and brush handling; coloring and patterns; more.
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.
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.
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.