The Computer Cartoon Kit

Here--in book format with accompanying CD-ROM--is a tutorial for beginning cartoonists. It presents detailed instruction on creating comics, from scripting and storytelling to finished composition and distribution both to print and Internet publishers. The book opens with a short history of cartoons and points out different comic book styles that have evolved over the decades. It goes on to recommend software for beginning cartoonists, focusing on widely-used Photoshop software and explaining how to use it. Additional advice and instruction explains how to choose and customize images from the accompanying disc, how to add text and dialogue balloons to a story, how to size formats for printing on the Web, and even how to create your own image library. The book features more than 400 color illustrations and the CD-ROM contains more than 100 copyright-free comic book images.

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THE
COMPUTER
CARTOON KIT

ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN COMIC STRIPS

In the early 1940s, Captain Marvel Junior artist Mac Raboy drew stock poses that he and other artists photocopied and reused while working on the comic strip. Since then, many cartoonists have used collages in their work. However, in the wrong hands, this short-cut technique can leave comic strips looking repetitive and dull. Today, with the advent of image-manipulation software, "found" images and stock poses can be used in a variety of imaginative ways without need of scissors and paste.

The Computer Cartoon Kit comes with a CD featuring more than 100 cartoon images of people, places, and objects. It also gives you a selection of word-balloons and blank comic-strip panels that can be resized, moved around, and colored to suit a multitude of purposes.

If you can't draw, and don't have the time to learn, you'll quickly be able to produce professional looking cartoons. If you can draw, you'll discover many interesting and new ways to enhance your work with help from your computer.

Whether you intend to produce cartoons and comic strips for your own amusement, liven up a company brochure, or add graphics to a website, you'll find The Computer Cartoon Kit an invaluable resource.

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THE
COMPUTER
CARTOON KIT

ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN COMIC STRIPS

Simple tutorials explain how to compose classic comic-strip genres, such as horror, science fiction, superheroes, and romance

Perfect for frustrated amateur cartoonists and an excellent resource library and inspiration for practicing artists

A complete guide to creating comics, from scripting and storytelling to composition and distribution via print or the Internet

Accompanying CD contains over 100 copyright-free comic book images, word balloons, page designs, and fonts--all created specifically for this book

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Marchant is a professional cartoonist who combines traditional methods and computer-generated imagery for a wide variety of clients. He is best known for teaching cartooning to young people and adults at libraries, schools, and galleries across the U.K. and at City University, London.