Drawing Cartoons and Comics For Dummies
Chapter One
The Skinny on Cartoons
and Comics
In This Chapter
* Exploring the various cartooning genres
* Understanding some drawing basics
* Considering the future of cartooning
So you want to be a cartoonist? Or maybe you already consider yourself
a cartoonist - and a darn good one - but you don't have the slightest
idea how to market your work. Or perhaps you just enjoy drawing and you'd
like to become better at it.
If you want to draw cartoons, you're not alone. Right about now, thousands
of budding cartoonists are doodling on any scrap of paper they can find,
dreaming of breaking into the cartooning business someday. And who's to
say you won't be the next Charles Schulz or create the next Garfield? One
thing's for certain: If you're a cartoonist with something to say and you get
your point across well, you can - thanks to the Internet - be published anytime
and anywhere, even if it's just on your own Web site or blog.
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