YOU CAN DRAW

CARTOONS
by
Lou Darvas

I960
Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
To Hal Talburt, for his sole contribution on the art of the
editorial cartoon.. .To George Wolfe, gag cartoonist, who gave
us the "inside" on the slick gag market.. .To Neg Cochran, who
has so ably taken over the chores of the late J. R. Williams;
to Leslie Turner, Galbraith, Frank O'Neal, Nadine Seltzer, and
Kate Osann for contributing their features which appear daily
in hundreds of newspapers throughout the country... To East Lynn,
Comics Editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA),
who compiled these features for us. . . To Mr. Frank Dittrich,
publisher of All-Pets Magazine, for allowing us to reprint
the mongrel that heads off the lesson on "Animals."

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-9426

All Rights Reserved

Copyright 1960 Louis F. Darvas

Printed in the United States of America

First Edition

CONTENTS
Introduction___________________________________

Your Materials_________________________________

Loosening Up__________________________________

Pen and Brush Handling_________________________

Patterns and Coloring___________________________

The Comic Head_______________________________ 11

Expression____________________________________ 23
The Hand_____________________________________ 26
Feet and Shoes________________________________ 31
The Simple Comic Figure_______________________ 37
Clothes and Wrinkles___________________________ 41
The Complete Figure___________________________ 46
Man in Motion_________________________________ 51
Kids__________________________________________ 59
Animals_______________________________________ 65
The Women___________________________________ 72
Stock Types___________________________________ 78
Off Beat Comics________________________________ 83
Perspective______________________________._____ 88
Comic Gimmicks and Props______________________ 91
Comic Lettering________________________________ 97
Caricatures____________________________________ 98
Gag Panels___________________________________102
The Comic Strip________________________________112
The Sports Cartoon_____________________________122
The Political Cartoon___________________________137
General Newspaper Feature____________________144
Gloomies_____________________________________150
In Conclusion:
Major Magazine Markets_____________________151
Major Newspaper Syndicates_________________152

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Your Materials

Patterns & Coloring

The Comic Head

A SQUIJOT AT SOME SPECS