The Complete Book of Humorous Art.The Complete Book of Humorous Art. Bob Staake, Cincinnati: North Light Books, 1996. Illus., 134 pp., hardcover, $24.95. If cartooning and caricature are of interest to your students, or are a part of your curriculum, either of these two recent publications should provide meaningful information about the cartooning field. Robin Hall begins with a how-to approach to line drawings of faces, features, expressions, and action figures. The author projects a confident pen and ink executed or done with a pen and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch s>. See also: Pen drawing. The quality of the drawings is of the highest order. Caricatures, basic anatomy, perspective, lettering, cartoon strips, and gag situations are discussed in varying degrees of depth, along with accessible cartoon markets and tips on presentation, portfolio preparation, and other career suggestions. High school students interested in cartooning will find this to be an appealing book. A broader view of humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was is presented in Bob Staake's book. While the basic cartoon is addressed, humorous illustration which includes magazine covers, advertisements, story illustrating, greeting cards See e-card. , comic books comic book Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums. , and editorial cartooning This article or section deals primarily with the United States and Canada and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. all receive careful attention via extended text and hundreds of illustrations--many in color--by the author/artist and many other top illustrators. Much attention is directed to the use of appropriate media from pencil to computer. A well presented book, recommended for high school and beyond. |
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