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Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Defiant1:
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.pngDefiant1
Defiant1:
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.jpgDefiant1
The Ghost Man:
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:
--- 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.
--- End quote ---
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.pngThe 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:
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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