How to Be a Successful Cartoonist [Hardcover]

Randy Glasbergen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1996

Practical advice for people who want to turn their cartooning talent into a paying career. Readers will find tips, insight and artwork from dozens of successful cartoonists.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books; 1st edition (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891346333
• ISBN-13: 978-0891346333
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #832,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For cartoonists who are serious., March 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Be a Successful Cartoonist (Hardcover)

How to Be a Successful Cartoonist is not for folks who want to learn to draw cartoons. It assumes you already cartoon. What this book teaches is how to polish cartoons and present them for sale... and where to present them. It is for amateur cartoonists who want to become professionals.

The book is organized into 5 chapters: 1. Getting started. 2. Tools and Techniques of the Pros. 3. Developing Great Style and Characters. 4. Creating funny cartoon ideas. and 5. Turning your cartoons into cash.

Each chapter has two parts: 1) profiles of and hints from different well known cartoonists, each complete with a sample cartoon. These are interspersed with 2) questions and answers about cartooning. The two parts are separate, but they do relate... if the question is about computer generated cartoons, the cartoonist profiled is one who uses computers to produce his cartoons, and a description of how he does it is attached to the sample cartoon.

The book is good in itself, but I'd say its greatest strength is its many references to other resources. It tells you where to find the right materials. It tells you how to find markets. It gets you started in the right direction for everything you need, from paper to syndicates.

If you already do cartoons and are serious about becoming a professional cartoonist, but don't know where to start, this is the book for you.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "GOOD " IS THE WORD, June 4, 2001

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Sherlock Holmes (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Be a Successful Cartoonist (Hardcover)

This is a extremely good and useful book for all serious cartoonists or so called 'the people who love to draw cartoons'.Lots of questions are answered, many tibs of what you need,where to send your comics to.This book deals with anything you need to know all about a cartoonist, a how-to-polish up your cartooning techniques book.Lots of great tibs from successful and famous cartoonists, by the time you finished the book, you will know that age is not a problem and it's all right for not attending some art colleges but cartooning courses are highly recommended for everyone to draw better.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love This Book!!!, February 26, 2004

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Tom "Tom" - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Be a Successful Cartoonist (Hardcover)

This book has so much to offer the budding cartoonist! Covering such things as: getting started, tools and techniques of the pros, developing great style and characters, creating funny cartoon ideas. turning your cartoons into cash, as well as resources and extra stuff, this book answers all the questions as well as shows you various styles of cartooning by many "strippers" from today and yesterday. I highly recommend this!!!