How to Draw Comic Strips

Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone.

Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.

What you'll learn from this book ...

• A practical approach to developing and selling a comic strip, including how to create a cast of characters and devise a theme

• Appropriate lettering styles, balloon shapes, and inking techniques for professional comic strips

• Skills for bringing your characters to life through facial expressions and body gestures

• How to create interest, convey action, and communicate the theme through proper staging

• Tips on comic strip mechanics and how they relate to salability and newspaper size

Roger Armstrong has been a cartoonist, book illustrator, freelance artist, and story director for many well-known animation studios, newspaper syndicates, and publishing companies. During his 40-year profession, he has worked on many famous comic strips, including Little Lulu, the Flinstones, Napoleon & Uncle Elby, Ella Cinders, Scamp, and Bugs Bunny.

Armstrong attended Pasadena City College in California and Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts). In addition to comics, Armstrong's artistic talents include watercolor painting and figure drawing. He has taught art classes at several colleges and art schools, and he is a member and past president of the national Watercolor Society. Armstrong's work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Cartoon Art, the Smithsonian Institute, and Ohio State University. His artwork also hangs in more than 200 private collections.