{"id":5496,"date":"2012-09-06T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2012-09-05T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:59:06","slug":"my-favorite-book-on-cartooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/my-favorite-book-on-cartooning\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Book on Cartooning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/secrets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5497\" title=\"The Secrets of Professional Cartooning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/secrets.jpg\" alt=\"The Secrets of Professional Cartooning\" width=\"264\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/secrets.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/secrets-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>In this digital age, we can get information just by sitting at a keyboard and peering into a flat panel display or swiping our fingers across a tablet. \u00a0And, as much as I love Ereaders, sometimes it&#8217;s just wonderful picking up a real book!<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re interested in learning to cartoon and draw a comic strip, I&#8217;d like to\u00a0recommend\u00a0&#8220;The Secrets of Professional Cartooning&#8221;\u00a0by Ken Muse.<\/p>\n<p>This is, by far, my absolute favorite book on cartooning instruction! \u00a0This book contains a wealth of useful information on how to layout a comic strip, the kinds of pen nibs to use and how to use them, how to construct a gag, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re\u00a0interested\u00a0in cartooning and want to learn the first steps in creating, laying out, and drawing a comic strip, this is the book to get.<\/p>\n<p>First published in 1981, some of the material may appear to be a bit dated, but the basics still apply.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, last I looked, the book is currently out of print. \u00a0But you should be able to find one in the used area of any online bookseller or on Ebay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this digital age, we can get information just by sitting at a keyboard and peering into a flat panel display or swiping our fingers across a tablet. \u00a0And, as much as I love Ereaders, sometimes it&#8217;s just wonderful picking up a real book! So, if you&#8217;re interested in learning to cartoon and draw a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,575,22,13],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-cartooning","tag-drawing-george","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}