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The World of Cartooning: How Caricatures Develop

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This book was published at a time Mike Peters had a TV show in the US. This was never seen in other countries so reading this book may make you feel a little left out not knowing the man or his thoughts verbally.

This book however is fantastic and really shows you an easy and fast technique to drawing a unique style and how to adapt that to anything you draw as a cartoon. The best section of the cook is about caricaturing. Mike is one of the best to capturing a likeness in a cartoon like fashion without losing it.

After 16 years of cartooning myself, I keep this book as a reminder of what simplicity and style is all about.

If you are looking to learn to cartoon or draw caricatures then please avoid this book. The cartooning style is poor and the book just has the author chat about how good he is and why he drew this and why he drew that - no real instruction - just some guy explaining how good he is. If you are a Mike Petere fan then you may like it but if you are learning or studying caricature or cartoons there are some very good books on the market. I actually felt ripped off buying this book.