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Book SynopsisThe best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling - it is as much a matter of writing as it is of drawing. This book presents fifteen lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through written passages on cartooning terminology, techniques, tools, and theory.
Trade Review"A simple yet sophisticated guide . . . inculcate[s] a sense of cartoons as an essentially literary form."—Wall Street Journal
"A simple yet sophisticated guide . . . [with] a warm sense of humor."—Wall Street Journal
"[Brunetti] comes across as that one, quirky, transformative teacher who brings a subject to life . . . enormously empowering. . . . More than any other instructional book, Brunetti’s has the potential to create cartoonists."—Bill Kartalopoulos, Publishers Weekly
"Ivan Brunetti’s little classroom-in-a-book Cartooning: Philosophy and Practiceis probably my favourite book about drawing comics.Brunetti gets to the heart of what makes a comic a comic."—John Martz, Drawn blog
Winner of the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly work category
"The goal of this book is to fuse elements of both writing and drawing into another form altogether: cartooning. We will use pictures as words and words as pictures. If you follow the advice presented herein, you will begin to see the world through the eyes of a cartoonist."—from the Introduction
"This is the best book ever written, as far as I'm concerned. . . . It's the best book I've ever read on cartooning, and it's so generous. It's like, anybody can do this. The book is so good."—Lynda Barry, cartoonist
