The Everything Cartooning Book: Create Unique And Inspired Cartoons For Fun And Profit

by Brad Guigar

No matter what your background, The Everything Cartooning Book is the all-in-one reference to unlock your hidden potential and set you on the fast track toward a rewarding career in cartooning. Professional cartoonist Brad J. Guigar shows you everything from how to create believable characters and effective story lines to writing humor and getting published. This step-by-step guide shows you all the insider techniques and tricks you need to make it in this fun and creative field.Features tips on how movementCreate cartoons for different genresDevelop your individual styleCraft story linesSell your workand moreWhether you like to draw Manga, create humorous animal characters, or satirize the world around you, The Everything Cartooning Book teaches you all you need to know to successfully follow your artistic dreams.

322 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Webcomics pioneer Brad Guigar has been doing a daily comic strip since February 2000. Tens of thousands read Evil Inc every day on the Web and in newspapers. He has published over a dozen printed collections of his work, and he has been nominated for an Eisner award — the top honor in the comics industry. And he does it without a syndicate. Without a publisher. And without an editor.

Guigar runs the daily tutorial-and-advice Web site for independent cartoonists, Webcomics.com, and is the author of three books about the process of cartooning and self-publishing. He is the author of "The Everything Cartooning Book." He co-wrote the seminal "How To Make Webcomics Book," (Amazon) and he wrote its sequel, "The Webcomics Handbook" (Amazon)

His podcasts include Surviving Creativity, Webcomics Weekly, Webcomics Confidential and Hey Comics — Kids! (a podcast he records with his two boys on their drive to school).

Guigar is an adjunct professor at Hussian School of Art, teaching Arts Entrepreneurship and Sequential Art. Guigar is available for freelance illustration projects — including children's book illustration, superhero-themed illustrations and corporate work.

A confident and engaging public speaker, Guigar is also available to lead presentations on creativity-on-demand, managing creative people, social media, comics history, and Web-based publishing.

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is less about how the audience could make cartoons, and more about Guigar being able to make cartoons.

[Tabitha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some parts of this book are very helpful and informative. On the other hand it feels like there is an awful lot of 'this is how you will do things. No questions!'
So I'm going to take my little bits of instruction and suggestion and leave the rest. Glad I didn't spend money on this one.

[Samantha Griggs · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty basic

Not bad for beginners but there are better books out there for people trying to learn the art of cartooning