Learn to Draw Comics

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; How to Begin and What to Use; Drawing the Head; Facial Expression; How to Draw Various Kinds of Comic Faces; Hands and Feet; Drawing the Comic Figure; The Figure in Action; Tones, Shades and Technique; Shadows; Women and Children in Comic-Pictures; Types and Characters; Comic-Picture Animals; Perspective and Backgrounds; Composition and Arrangement; Lettering; Comic Strips; Comic Pictures in Advertising; Getting Your Work Into Print.;This user-friendly guide from the 1930s offers aspiring cartoonists a wealth of practical advice. Rich in period flavor, it supplies the ageless foundations of comic art. Abundant illustrations and clear, nontechnical prose cover: creating expressions, attaining proportion and applying perspective, depicting anatomy, simple shading, achieving consistency, lettering, and writing a strip.