The birth of the funny pages
Mid-century masters and golden ages
Comic strips around the world
The art and craft of cartooning
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Draw your rough lines in a non-photo blue, Only the dark ink will print when you're through.
schopenhauer Meeting daily deadlines requires cartoonists to work weeks ahead without stopping.
schopenhauer Illustrators use a universal visual vocabulary to convey instant human emotions.
schopenhauer Flip and match classic comic panels to discover how the funny pages made history.
Comic dictionary: Cartoonist Mort Walker invented a humorous dictionary of comic symbols, naming sweat drops "plewds" and dust clouds "briffits."
A graphic shape containing a character's spoken words, with a tail pointing to the speaker. Rudolph Dirks pioneered its regular use in his 1897 comic strip, The Katzenjammer Kids.
What did cartoonist Mort Walker call the spiral lines indicating dizziness or confusion?
Why did early comic strips avoid using highly detailed backgrounds in their daily black-and-white panels?
What do we call the white space between comic panels that readers mentally bridge to follow the action?
What digital format allowed 21st-century cartoonists to publish infinite-canvas comics without newspaper size limits?
How many weeks in advance did syndicated newspaper cartoonists typically have to submit their daily strips?
What is the name of the process where a writer/artist maps out rough, miniature sketches of a comic strip?
Which cartoonist created 'The Beetle Bailey' strip and wrote the book 'The Lexicon of Comicana'?