Charlton Guide to Making Comics - Super-Rare 1973 Premium is now Scanned

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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!
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In addition to 36 pages of scans,
you can also download an easy-to-print PDF of the whole thing!
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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...
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While you're there, check out this scan
of an AMAZING Creepy magazine story drawn by Alex Toth ---
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7 comments:

  1. swanieApril 10, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    Nice scan ... dang, how do you find this stuff?

    This looks a little bit like the stuff Scott McCloud talks about in "Understanding Comics" ...

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  2. Bob FlynnApril 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM

    Loved the part about getting your kid brother to erase your pencils for a dime a page.

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  3. Subminister For PropagandaApril 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM

    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? ;)

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  4. JordanApril 10, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    Hey Great stuff! Thanks again for sharing!

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  5. ShermApril 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    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

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  6. Jay LenderApril 10, 2009 at 9:15 PM

    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!

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  7. ShermApril 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM

    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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