Drawing Cartooning For Laughs

The author whose signature style of art introduction has sold nearly a million books now applies his highly regarded techniques to humorous art with a drawing guide guaranteed to bring laughter within everyone's reach. Featuring 1200 illustrations with thorough instructions.

‘I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you can’t learn cartooning, and it can’t be taught.’ And so begins Oslo Davis’ illustrated book on how to draw gag cartoons. Talk about shoot yourself in the foot! But he’s kidding, kind of. There are reasons why your terrible cartoons are not funny, and Oslo is very happy to point them out. He’s also prepared to give you some advice, for what it’s worth, using examples selected from more than twenty years’ drawing for newspapers and magazines worldwide. Drawing Funny is a how-to guide for people who might never draw a cartoon in their life but always read the cartoons first in the New Yorker and want to know how it’s done.

THE QUESTION: Are there new ways of opening the field of cartooning to any one who likes to draw? THE ANSWER: Yes! Here are tried and proven methods that explain, simplify and teach every one, regardless of age, the art of cartooning. Step by step procedures with more than 3,000 illustrations . . .

Readers who dream of making people laugh with their comic creations will learn the skills they need to do so as they create their own funny comics. Readers discover helpful tips for drawing cartoon figures, heads, and expressions, as well as creating speech bubbles for their characters. Step-by-step instructions allow readers to progress as artists, moving from drawing a single cavewoman to an entire funny story. Each step is accompanied by sketches to guide readers through the process. Funny, full-color illustrations of each example will make readers laugh as they’re learning!

An instructional guide for drawing cartoon animals.

"Hart analyzes joke construction and phrasing, and explains how to best set up a joke. He discusses humorous illustrating techniques and also advises readers on what methods to avoid. Rounding out the book is a section on selling your work and getting published that lists addresses for all the major comic strip syndicates in the country and their basic guidelines for strip submission." --Cover.

FAME brings its glories and its trials. I constantly receive letters asking for “straight tips” how to win out in the Pictorial field. My spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak; I cannot attempt to answer the thousand and one questions put to me by kindly correspondents, so I do the next best thing. I give you in these pages the concentrated essence of nearly thirty years of experience as a Cartoonist making the world laugh. Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman

A monstrously big guide that teaches you how to draw the silliest and scariest zombies, vampires, witches, ghouls, and other creepy cartoon favorites. Aspiring artists learn all the drawing tips and tricks they need to create laugh-out-loud renditions of their favorite monsters and scary creatures direct from cartooning master Christopher Hart. This jam-packed cartooning guide shows readers how to capture the lighter side of these creepy creatures by combining them with Hart's incredibly popular cartoon drawing style! Taking readers step-by-step through each monster type, Hart demonstrates how to draw everything from terrifyingly silly heads to wacky comic strip-like scenes of monstrous menace. Chockful of hints, humor, and horror, The Ginormous Book of Monster Cartoons is guaranteed to be a real scream for aspiring and professional artists, as well as all fans of things that go bump in the night.