The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling - it is as much a matter of writing as it is of drawing. In this book, noted cartoonist and illustrator Ivan Brunetti presents fifteen distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through wittily written passages on cartooning te[...]

Selections from the works of more than seventy-five avant-garde comic artists come together in a definitive anthology that serves as a broad historical overview of the medium and a roundup of some of today's best North American comic artists--including Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, R. Crumb, Joe Sacco[...]