Adventures in Cartooning
How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2009
Summary
In this action-packed cartooning adventure, you will have as much fun making comics as reading them!Once upon a time… a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how - well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon, near-death by drowning, and into her very own adventure! Like the princess, young readers will discover that they already have the drawing and writing skills it takes to make a comic - they just need a little know-how.And Adventures in Cartooning supplies just that.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781596433694 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1596433698 |
| Author: | James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, Alexis Frederick-Frost |
| Publisher: | Roaring Brook Press |
| Imprint: | First Second |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 257mm x 193mm |
| Series: | Adventures in Cartooning |
| Audience Age: | 6 |
Critics Review
“As an examination of the medium, [Adventures in Cartooning is] a supremely worthy spiritual legacy to Scott McCloud’s seminal Understanding Comics (1993). As a straight-up graphic adventure, it may be the best of the year.” –Booklist, starred review
“Each tutorial panel contains clever and inventive touches that illustrate the capabilities of the format… This is a volume for kids who love comics, who enjoy an adventure filled with action and humor, are natural-born artists, or who aspire to become comic-book creators. A surefire hit.” –School Library Journal, starred review
“Though seemingly simplistic, this multilayered composition is an excellent teaching tool to whet the appetites of aspiring young doodlers and even offers a pleasant twist in an otherwise apparently straightforward plot. … Entertaining and surprisingly edifying.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Even seasoned comics readers may more fully appreciate the work of their favorite creators after reading this book.” –Shelf Awareness
James Sturm
The three-headed cartooning monster who created this book is: Eisner Award-winning James Sturm, who also founded the Center for Cartoon Studies, and two of his former students, Alexis Frederick-Frost and Andrew Arnold. The three-headed cartooning monster lives in Vermont and New York.
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