Secrets of Cartooning by Chuck Thorndike, The comic books
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Issue #1936A
Published 1936 by House of Little Books.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
The Secrets of Cartooning by Chuck Thorndike (1936 copyright) is an "Instruction Book on Humorous Drawings" covering the Secrets of Cartooning--elementary principles. , and the Art of Cartooning--more advanced instruction. Interestingly, a third section which is listed on the advertising, The Business of Cartooning--biographies and methods of the world's greatest cartoonists, does not appear in the actual publication. Published by the Little House of Books, R.K.O. Building, Radio City, New York. Page facing inside back cover lists about twenty other art books, most of them by Charles X. Carlson, available at $1.00 each from the publisher. 44 pages, 8.5-in. x 11-in., black ink on yellow cover stock, black and white interior on superior news stock, $1.00 cover price, inside covers blank. Cover price $1.00.
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Issue #1936B
Published 1936 by House of Little Books.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
The Secrets of Cartooning by Chuck Thorndike Spiral Edition. This edition bears the 1936 copyright, but no other identifying information. It is published by Bridgman Publishers by special arrangement with The House of Little books and appears to be printed shortly after the 1936 edition by the Little House of Books.
An "Instruction Book on Humorous Drawings" covering the Secrets of Cartooning--elementary principles. The Secrets of Cartooning & The Art of Cartooning-- his more advanced instruction book on cartooning were later published together in a single volume titled Cartooning, Caricature, and Animation Made Easy. Spiral-bound, 44 pages, 8.5-in. x 11-in., black ink on orange cardboard cover, black and white interior on superior news stock, $1.00 cover price, inside covers blank. Cover price $1.00.
