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Ivan Brunetti

Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice

CARTOONING can be a lot more than just having fun drawing and creating jokes. This “classroom in a book” provides the aspiring cartoonist with a practical means for creative self-discovery and the exploration of complex ideas through the iconic visual language of comics.

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Ivan Brunetti

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100236

About this Book

Cartooning can be a lot more than just having fun drawing and creating jokes. This “classroom in a book” provides the aspiring cartoonist with a practical means for creative self-discovery and the exploration of complex ideas through the iconic visual language of comics.

You will get all the benefits of taking the cartooning course I teach, minus the distractions of the instructor’s monotonous, droning voice, chronic absent-mindedness, soporific slideshows, and soul-crushing critiques. The seemingly endless tangential exegeses, however, have been retained.

You will keep a sketchbook that will function as a journal for notes, observations, experiences, memories, dreams, and anecdotes (and may even serve as an “art object” in and of itself). You will then develop and translate this material into various cartoon narratives, ranging from the simple construction of one-panel “gag” cartoons to a full-fledged multiple-page story. All the while, you will be encouraged to experiment with the wide variety of tools and media that can be used to create comics.

You will design characters, explore the various rhythms of storytelling inherent in the cartooning language, and compose panels, pages, and stories. The goal will be to move from rough ideas to initial sketches, and then to use this booklet as a sort of “process-oriented workshop” to refine those sketches into finished pieces.

This instructional guide will focus as much on “writing with pictures” as on developing ability in drawing.

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BOOKCartooning: Philosophy and Practice

Ivan Brunetti

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100234

The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling—it is as much a matter of writing as it is of drawing. In this book, noted cartoonist and illustrator Ivan Brunetti presents fifteen distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through wittily written passages on cartooning terminology, techniques, tools, and theory. Supplemented by Brunetti's own illustrations, prepared specially for this book, these lessons move the reader from spontaneous drawings to single-panel strips and complicated multipage stories.

Through simple, creative exercises and assignments, Brunetti offers an unintimidating approach to a complex art form. He looks at the rhythms of storytelling, the challenges of character design, and the formal elements of comics while composing pages in his own iconic style and experimenting with a variety of tools, media, and approaches. By following the author's sophisticated and engaging perspective on the art of cartooning, aspiring cartoonists of all ages will hone their craft, create their personal style, and discover their own visual language.

Winner of the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for the Best Academic/Scholarly Work

"Brunetti has given the cartooning world something very similar to what Strunk & White gave to prose with their Elements of Style."—Tim O’Neil, PopMatters.com

Author

Ivan Brunetti

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date March 2011 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300170993

EISBN 9780300283556

Illustrations 11

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