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Title: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: 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 (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.

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on January 03, 2021, 09:38:56 AM

Sounds good GM.
Are you on Facebook?

-Yoc

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man 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.

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc 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

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man on January 03, 2021, 11:53:19 AM

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

Title: Leroy Lettering link
Post by: Yoc 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

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man on February 12, 2021, 09:30:17 AM

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


Thanks!

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on February 15, 2021, 08:35:34 AM

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

-Yoc

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man 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/

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Defiant1 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

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Defiant1 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

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Defiant1 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

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: 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.

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Defiant1 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

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Defiant1 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

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Defiant1 on March 07, 2021, 09:59:19 AM

This too is only available online. This is definitely worthy as educational material despite being harsh.

Alex Toth critiques Steve Rude's storytelling and rips him apart.

http://illdave.com/comicbooks/history/toth-critiques-rude.htm

Defiant1

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Defiant1 on March 07, 2021, 10:05:42 AM

This video series is also invaluable as teaching material.
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3y6k_vk_Vg&ab_channel=webfox100

While I have a hard time classifying Marvel as vintage, it really is. The tutorial outlines concepts utilized by Jack Kirby to make  storytelling more dynamic.

Defiant1

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man on March 07, 2021, 12:36:39 PM

Thanks again, it took a lot of doing but I was able to finally secure Secrets Behind the Comics. I'll look into the others you've recommended soon, I've got to literally get back to the drawing board.

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on April 05, 2021, 09:23:04 AM

Hi GM,
This isn't exactly 'comics' but I think you might be interested in it -

Sunbow and Marvel Productions Script/Storyboard Archive:
https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/

-Yoc

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man on April 05, 2021, 10:32:57 AM

Thanks Yoc, the oldest scripts are from 1981 but still very helpful. I'm thinking that unless there's a dramatic new discovery, there's virtually no surviving scripts from the Golden-Age that are digitally accessible. This is the same for the dearth of original art from that era, I know Victor "I'm the King of the Comics" Fox used to mandate that all original art pages be destroyed after publication. What a sad tragedy to envision Lou Fine's pages for The Flame being ripped up and summarily bin rubbished.


Thanks for always thinking of TVIA and my projects, it's well appreciated!

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on April 08, 2021, 11:57:39 AM

Hi GM,
This add recently showed up in a Facebook post.  Sorry I only know it's from the 1920s.

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on April 08, 2021, 07:48:46 PM

And the guide itself appears on eBay here -  https://is.gd/396QWq

-Yoc

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on April 09, 2021, 11:40:16 AM

And here's another school and ad for your collection.
Shared on Facebook, the poster thought it was also from the 1920s.

You can read more about this Washington School of Cartooning at this blog -
https://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-become-cartoonist-washington.html

-Yoc

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man on April 14, 2021, 08:49:54 AM

Greetings Yoc,

            Terribly sorry for the late response, I've been having some issues with the TVIA website where the menu is no longer active on mobile devices. Very frustrating and time consuming to troubleshoot as I am not a web developer. Long story short is I believe the theme I'm using has not been properly looked after by the vendor and has obsolete coding that might be causing the issue. In any event, I'm organising to address this with a webhost change and possible complete revamp of the site to perhaps something more visually modern. Everything else will stay the same but be MUCH better.

Thanks for all of the tips and links. I actually have the course for The Washington School of Cartooning in the TVIA Library: How to Become a Cartoonist by The Washington School of Cartooning
 (https://tvia.ingenuityserials.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/How-to-Become-a-Cartoonist-by-The-Washington-School-of-Cartooning.pdf)

I've added 8 more fantastic books over the weekend and have re-organised the library to be much easier to read. It's now catalogued precisely so that visitors can find what they most like quickly.

Good things to come despite all the travails. Cheers to you for your support and thoughtful shares my friend!

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on April 14, 2021, 09:28:57 AM

GL with the new host and redesign GM!
Let us know when you feel it's working for you.

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man on April 14, 2021, 02:38:37 PM

Thanks Yoc, right now I was able to put an active menu at the footer of the site for those on mobile devices. It's temporary whilst I contract a web dev tech to resolve the actual issue. On desktops TVIA works and the menu is functioning normally.
BTW, I did navigate over to the Washington Cartoon link and am creating a PDF of the excellent advert promotional you shared. I'll be uploading it to the Library this weekend sometime or before if I can wrangle out some time. Thanks for your contributions, they make TVIA better and better.

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: paulkapil08 on May 17, 2021, 05:14:07 AM

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Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: Yoc on May 18, 2021, 07:10:47 AM

All thanks should be going to Ghost Man here.  This is all his hard work.

-Yoc

Title: Re: Seeking Vintage Art, Cartooning or Illustration Instruction PDFs
Post by: The Ghost Man on May 23, 2021, 11:36:58 AM

Cheers for that Yoc!