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Complete Guide to Drawing Illustration Cartooning and Painting comic books 1938-1955

  • Issue #1948
    Complete Guide to Drawing Illustration Cartooning and Painting 1948

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    Extraordinary hardcover instruction book by Gene Byrnes (of "Reg'lar Fellers") covering numerous aspects of drawing and painting. Chapter sections include Freehand Drawing, Design, Color Theory, Comic Drawings (i.e. cartooning), Drawing the Human Figure, Drawing Children, Portraiture, Drawing Animals, Magazine and Book Illustration, Art in Advertising, Decorative Painting, Architectural Drawings, and Interiors and Furniture. Especially impressive is the collection of contributing artists providing illustrations for those chapters: Milton Caniff, George Herriman, Harold Foster, Alex Raymond, Joe Shuster, Franklin Booth, George Bridgman, Dean Cornwell, Bud Fisher, Charles Dana Gibson, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, and dozens more. 8.5-in. x 11.25-in.; mostly black and white with 16 pages in color; 374 pages. No dust jacket.