Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics

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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.

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"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

Author Bio

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.