Author Topic: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs (Read 4142 times)

The Ghost Man · « **on:** January 02, 2021, 11:58:27 AM »

Greetings and Happy New Year to all,
I'm just reaching out to the DCM community here to request any vintage art, cartooning or illustration instructional books or media that are available as PDFs or JPG's that I can turn into PDFs. For those who may not know, I host a blogsite called The Vintage Inkwell Academy (TVIA) at https://tvia.ingenuityserials.com that offers free traditional art training resources for artists, writers and vintage content producers. I currently have nearly 100 rare or otherwise exceptional instructional PDF's in the TVIA Library and am always scouting for more to keep building a fully comprehensive library.

My goal is to curate as many of these vanishing educational resources as I can find and make them available free of cost to all with zero strings attached. I personally use them in my artistic training and can verify that these are the genuine article that produce tangible results. I add more as I locate them and have 8 new ones I just discovered that I'm uploading this weekend. I check each one for visual quality and instructional value to ensure I'm hosting the best resources to create the best artistic content creators.

So please share any of these vintage books you may have that have been digitised into PDF's. I would be most appreciative and would be happy to give credit for the share if the donor requests it, or write a simple exceptional gratitude to those who prefer anonymity.

Thank you sincerely in advance for both your attention and support.

Digital Comic Museum · « **on:** January 02, 2021, 11:58:27 AM »

Yoc · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2021, 09:38:56 AM »

Sounds good GM.
Are you on Facebook?

-Yoc

The Ghost Man · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2021, 11:39:18 AM »

Greetings Yoc, sorry no I'm not on FB, Twitter nor Instagram. Just a personal preference as I'm not a fan of their egregiously intrusive personal data harvesting business model.

Yoc · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2021, 11:42:20 AM »

Oh I agree. DCM has an account I use for updates.
I've seen the odd thing there that might fit your Inkwell project.
I'll just share them here when they come up.

-Yoc

The Ghost Man · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2021, 11:53:19 AM »

Much obliged and many thanks Yoc. You're top shelf in my book friend.

Yoc · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2021, 08:38:45 AM »

Hi GM,
If you haven't found it already here's a great blog entry on Leroy Lettering which all EC readers will know well.

https://potrzebie.blogspot.com/2011/09/wroten-on-wind.html

and a video tutorial for them can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/5t1YLxb2hbY

Stay well,
-Yoc

The Ghost Man · « **Reply #6 on:** February 12, 2021, 09:30:17 AM »

Wow Yoc, this is great, I'll be sharing this to my audience ASAP.

Thanks!

Yoc · « **Reply #7 on:** February 15, 2021, 08:35:34 AM »

Happy to help GM.
I'll update here if I find anything else.

-Yoc

The Ghost Man · « **Reply #8 on:** March 06, 2021, 12:29:02 PM »

Thanks again Yoc, I just posted it to the TVIA Reddit site at https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageinkwell/comments/lz92w3/the_mystery_of_ec_comics_wroten_lettering/

Defiant1 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2021, 08:00:05 AM »

If you can find a full scan of this, it might provide some reference info.
Only one course book was ever created despite the back cover advertising more.
This copy has bug damage.

Cover

http://i.postimg.cc/FKnD6rfM/001-Comic-Book-Illustrators-Instruction-Course.png

Page 1

https://i.postimg.cc/7xXc7DLM/CBI-Lesson1-Page-1.png

Defiant1

Defiant1 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2021, 08:07:21 AM »

This is another excellent resource if you can find scans of it. My copy is stained from someone using it as a coaster.

http://i.postimg.cc/3NhpSVBM/nn-Secrets-Behind-the-Comics.png

Defiant1

Defiant1 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 07, 2021, 08:14:10 AM »

There are full scans of the 1973 first printing of this publication online.
The 1st printing has a color cover.
I own the 'revised' 1976 2nd printing with a B&W cover.
It includes a published version of the comics code inside.

http://i.postimg.cc/s2ZhVsHd/nn-Comic-Book-Guide-AWL-revised.jpg

Defiant1

The Ghost Man · « **Reply #12 on:** March 07, 2021, 09:07:59 AM »

Thanks Defiant1 (great username!) I've already got The Comic Book Guide for the Artist-Writer-Letterer in the TVIA Library. I've tried mightily to find Comic Book Illustrators Instruction Course to no avail and want that one badly. Secrets Behind the Comics, I thought I had tried to secure before, however I'll try again and see if I can track that one down.

I do appreciate your replies and if you discover any others, I'd be much obliged if you'd send any my way.

Defiant1 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 07, 2021, 09:36:57 AM »

Quote from: The Ghost Man on March 07, 2021, 09:07:59 AM

Thanks Defiant1 (great username!) I've already got The Comic Book Guide for the Artist-Writer-Letterer in the TVIA Library. I've tried mightily to find Comic Book Illustrators Instruction Course to no avail and want that one badly. Secrets Behind the Comics, I thought I had tried to secure before, however I'll try again and see if I can track that one down.

I do appreciate your replies and if you discover any others, I'd be much obliged if you'd send any my way.

If I think of any, I'll let you know.

Print Magazine (2 issues) from 1942 had some articles by Max Gaines which may have some invaluable reference material. One features the history of comics and it starts with cave man drawings. One publishes the cover to Wonder Woman #1 before the comic came out. The articles were reprinted in Narrative Illustration: The Story of the Comics and Good Triumphs Over Evil! -- More About the Comics which were distributed to libraries. All are pretty rare and scans might be difficult to locate.

I own a slipcase with 4 issues of Print Magazine. It includes the two with articles by Max Gaines. Print Magazine was a trade publication spotlighting the capabilities of printing at the time. One of the magazines has one or two comic stories bound inside.

The slipcase

https://i.postimg.cc/y8CmkJ96/V3-Print-Magazine-Slipcase.png

The covers...

Print Magazine
http://ec-comics.epizy.com/Print_Magazine/Print_Magazine.html

Narrative Illustration
http://ec-comics.epizy.com/Narrative_Illustration/Narrative_Illustration.html

Good Triumphs Over Evil!
http://ec-comics.epizy.com/Good_Triumphs_Over_Evil/Good_Triumphs_Over_Evil.html

Some other historical information is here, but it's not about producing comics.
Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
http://www.archive.org/stream/juveniledelinque54unit

Declassified FBI files on William Gaines being investigated for sedition
http://ec-comics.epizy.com/EC_Comics_Investigated.html

Defiant1 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 07, 2021, 09:56:36 AM »

Jim Shooter's "How To Create Comics" Seminar has some of the content on his blog. It's only web based. There is no print version.

Here he breaks down why Kirby was so effective as a storyteller...

http://storytelling.jimshooter.com/strange-tales/

Defiant1

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