Product Description

Here—in book format with accompanying CD-ROM—is a tutorial for beginning cartoonists. It presents detailed instruction on creating comics, from scripting and storytelling to finished composition and distribution both to print and Internet publishers. The book opens with a short history of cartoons and points out different comic book styles that have evolved over the decades. It goes on to recommend software for beginning cartoonists, focusing on widely-used Photoshop software and explaining how to use it. Additional advice and instruction explains how to choose and customize images from the accompanying disc, how to add text and dialogue balloons to a story, how to size formats for printing on the Web, and even how to create your own image library. The book features more than 400 color illustrations and the CD-ROM contains more than 100 copyright-free comic book images.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179297 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From the Back Cover
(back cover)
THE
COMPUTER
CARTOON KIT

ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN COMIC STRIPS

In the early 1940s, Captain Marvel Junior artist Mac Raboy drew stock poses that he and other artists photocopied and reused while working on the comic strip. Since then, many cartoonists have used collages in their work. However, in the wrong hands, this short-cut technique can leave comic strips looking repetitive and dull. Today, with the advent of image-manipulation software, “found” images and stock poses can be used in a variety of imaginative ways without need of scissors and paste.

The Computer Cartoon Kit comes with a CD featuring more than 100 cartoon images of people, places, and objects. It also gives you a selection of word-balloons and blank comic-strip panels that can be resized, moved around, and colored to suit a multitude of purposes.

If you can’t draw, and don’t have the time to learn, you’ll quickly be able to produce professional looking cartoons. If you can draw, you’ll discover many interesting and new ways to enhance your work with help from your computer.

Whether you intend to produce cartoons and comic strips for your own amusement, liven up a company brochure, or add graphics to a website, you’ll find The Computer Cartoon Kit an invaluable resource.

(front flap)
THE
COMPUTER
CARTOON KIT

ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN COMIC STRIPS

Customer Reviews

wish i had this book years ago!
This book is for the cartoonist that wants to streamline and speed up his development time, or the beginning cartoonist that can make use of the included clip art. It is an awesome book! It's organized nicely and the examples are concise. Other reviewers had a problem with adobe elements not included. Download it. The demo is free. The book clearly states this is a book for people who use Photoshop elements. That program comes with its own tutorials and the examples in this book build on itself. By the way GIMP is free and has the same features. IN SUMMERY: I believe this book will allow an artist to reach new potential.

Nice idea but poorly executed
Several issues:

If you have never used Photoshop before, the guide is almost useless. You will need to do a lot of digging around online to find out how to use the Photoshop Elements plug-in.

Photoshop Elements does not come with this book. A trial of the program does. If you want Elements it will cost you approximately $100 US.

The guide to creating scenes is fair - but it is, at best, a very brief look at techniques that are better described elsewhere.

you'll never guess....
I picked this book up at the 99 cent store . Pretty nice book, fun to use .