"A simple yet sophisticated guide . . . inculcate[s] a sense of cartoons as an essentially literary form."—Wall Street Journal"A simple yet sophisticated guide . . . [with] a warm sense of humor."—Wall Street Journal"[Brunetti] comes across as that one, quirky, transformative teacher who brings a subject to life . . . enormously empowering. . . . More than any other instructional book, Brunetti’s has the potential to create cartoonists."—Bill Kartalopoulos, Publishers Weekly"Ivan Brunetti’s little classroom-in-a-book Cartooning: Philosophy and Practiceis probably my favourite book about drawing comics.Brunetti gets to the heart of what makes a comic a comic."—John Martz, Drawn blogWinner of the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly work category"The goal of this book is to fuse elements of both writing and drawing into another form altogether: cartooning. We will use pictures as words and words as pictures. If you follow the advice presented herein, you will begin to see the world through the eyes of a cartoonist."—from the Introduction"This is the best book ever written, as far as I'm concerned. . . . It's the best book I've ever read on cartooning, and it's so generous. It's like, anybody can do this. The book is so good."—Lynda Barry, cartoonist