Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics

James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Center for Cartoon Studies

Macmillan, Mar 31, 2009 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 109 pages

In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them!

Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how – well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon, near-death by drowning, and into her very own adventure! Like the princess, young readers will discover that they already have the drawing and writing skills it takes to make a comic – they just need a little know-how. And Adventures in Cartooning supplies just that.

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User Review  - lrubin75 - LibraryThing

A magic elf teaches a princess how to turn simple doodles into a cartoon with elements such as panels, action lines, speech and thought bubbles.

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User Review  - Turrean - LibraryThing

Funny and deceptively simple, the book appears to be a primer on making comics while actually telling a clever story about a knight's search for a dragon with which to do battle. Or possibly, it appears to be an adventure story which gives advice on drawing cartoons. You decide.

About the author

James Sturm is the author of award-winning graphic novels for children and adults, including James Sturm's America, Market Day, The Golem's Mighty Swing and Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow. He is the founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies. He lives in White River Junction, Vermont.

Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost are graduates of the Center for Cartoon Studies. Arnold lives in New York and works in publishing. Frederick-Frost lives outside of Boston and works at a library.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics; Adventures in Cartooning
• Authors: James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Center for Cartoon Studies
• Illustrated by: James Sturm
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2009
• ISBN: 1596433698, 9781596433694
• Length: 109 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Art & Architecture; Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Nonfiction / Activity Books; Juvenile Nonfiction / Art / Cartooning