The Groovy Agent at Diversions of the Groovy Kind comic book blog has generously shared his scans from the impossible-to-find, 1973 "The Comic Book Guide for the Artist - Writer - Letterer" from Charlton Comics!
In addition to 36 pages of scans,
you can also download an easy-to-print PDF of the whole thing!
you can also download an easy-to-print PDF of the whole thing!
Just go to:
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-comics-charlton-way.html
The Groovy Agent has included a lot of background information on this rare and insightful peek into the production process of 1970's Charlton comic books. I've been wanting to find a copy of this for years, so I'm really excited that Groovy has made this available!
PS...
While you're there, check out this scan
of an AMAZING Creepy magazine story drawn by Alex Toth ---
of an AMAZING Creepy magazine story drawn by Alex Toth ---
7 comments:
Nice scan ... dang, how do you find this stuff?
This looks a little bit like the stuff Scott McCloud talks about in "Understanding Comics" ...
Loved the part about getting your kid brother to erase your pencils for a dime a page.
Yeah, but if I follow that Charlton guide to making comics, won't I go out of business leaving behind tens of thousands of comics in the quarter bins of every comic store on Earth? ;)
Hey Great stuff! Thanks again for sharing!
Hi swanie ... my secret for finding stuff is to use Google Reader to subscribe to lots of offbeat comics and cartooning blogs!
HeyBob -- good eye! I guess now that it's 36 years later, it might be 50 cents a page?
@ Subminister ...Charlton's loss was our gain -- If it weren't for those quaerter bins, I would never have discovered all those great Ditko comics!
Hi Jordan -- and thank YOU for saying HI
Forget the Charlton book--look at that Toth story:
Interior balloon tails! INTERIOR BALLOON TAILS!
SO elegant. So purely compositional. So completely without tangents. How did this tool not come into wider use?! How did I not know about this?
Oh, the wasted years!
Jay .. re:interior ballon tails -- I totally overlooked that amazing innovation! The shock of it is HOW WELL it works! Sure saves a lot of panel clutter.
It still wouldn't work for Brian Michael Bendis, tho. ^_^
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