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Ivan Brunetti Cartooning Manual

I was reading the latest issue of The Comics Journal this morning before work (maaaaaybe on the toilet, maybe not) and was reading Tim O’Neil’s best of 2007 list. O’Neil mentioned Comic Art #9 which contained a separate pamphlet by Ivan Brunetti: Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice.

I immediately purchased it off of Amazon, especially after reading the following piece from his review on PopMatters:

What the field of comics has desperately needed for quite some time is an introductory style manual, and Brunetti’s style is just sparse enough to illustrate essential principles without bogging down in extraneous detail. At the risk of unnecessary effusion, Brunetti has given the cartooning world something very similar to what Strunk & White gave to prose with their Elements of Style.

Sold. And what’s better is that this is the perfect excuse to try a magazine that I’ve been hearing great things about for a long time. 2007 was the year I was truly exposed to Brunetti (his cartooning and philosophies) and I appreciate his point of view. This manual sounds like it is worth the price of the magazine alone.

Wednesday March 26, 2008    

jason caskey
Mar 29, 07:53 PM

# 1

My main exposure to Brunetti has been from the first 3 issues of Schizo, so I’m curious to see him tackle subject matter that doesn’t damn my soul to hell from laughing at it.

Aaron
Apr 8, 09:48 AM

# 2

Does he teach you the intricacies of creating strips such as “Mama was a fuck pig” and “bloody cunt”?

Max
Apr 8, 09:56 AM

# 3

Bwahaha! I kind of expected to see some of that, but alas, none to be found. I would say that so far, it is very insightful.

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