Pub Date: March 31, 2009
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2009279527
Lexile Code: 0440
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 06 to 10
Physical Info: 0.40" H x 7.40" L x 10.00" W ( 0.70 lbs) 112 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Art | Cartooning | Activity Books | General
Series: Adventures in Cartooning
Description: Jump headfirst into the wild, wacky world of cartooning with a headstrong knight, a cowardly horse, and a magic elf. With this action-packed how-to, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them. Full color.
Brief description: Alexis Frederick-Frost is co-author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Adventures in Cartooning series of graphic novels and picture books. A combination how-to book and exciting adventure story, Adventures in Cartooning: how to turn your doodles into comics, was one of Booklist's Top Ten Graphic Novel of 2010 and has encouraged hundreds of young artists to create their own comics. He also wrote and illustrated the monthly comic Kit and Clay for The Phoenix Magazine in the United Kingdom and has contributed to a variety of publications online and in print. A graduate from the inaugural class of the Center for Cartoon Studies, Alexis lives with his wife in Maryland.
Review Quotes:
"As an examination of the medium, [Adventures in Cartooning is] a supremely worthy spiritual legacy to Scott McCloud's seminal Understanding Comics (1993). As a straight-up graphic adventure, it may be the best of the year." --Booklist, starred review
"Each tutorial panel contains clever and inventive touches that illustrate the capabilities of the format... This is a volume for kids who love comics, who enjoy an adventure filled with action and humor, are natural-born artists, or who aspire to become comic-book creators. A surefire hit." --School Library Journal, starred review