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Draw Cartoons Today by Lou Darvas

The first ebook we are going to look is the Lou Darvas Course - Draw Cartoons Today! ebook.

Lou Darvas is one of America's most published newspaper cartoonists who decided to let his secrets out of the bag on how to become a successful commercial cartoonist.

Background

Lou Darvas started his artistic journey as a cartoonist at Thomas Jefferson Junior High School, and then at the West Technical High School through the 11th grade. He then got a job scrapping old signs for an advertising firm, while he followed his cartoonist training in night art classes at John Huntington Institute.

Career

Darvas's first newspaper job was with the Toledo News Bee as an artist. He moved to Cleveland and worked with the Cleveland Press from 1938 onwards.

During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Corps as head of the drafting and art room of the senior staff school supervising charts and graphs for secret Air Force statistical records.

During his stint in the Army, he won the first place for cartoons in the art show of the Army Air Corps Tactical Center at Orlando, Florida in 1944.

He was the author of a daily comic strip called "Half Nelson" for the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate for a year before returning to Cleveland Press.

His work appeared regularly from 1946 onwards on the cover of the Sporting News.

Lou Darvas died aged 73, and was survived by his wife Margaret, his daughters Janet and Laura, his son Robert, his stepdaughter Terry Rohde, 2 grandchildren and a sister.

Awards

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Sports Media Association and received the National Cartoonist Society Award for the best work in the field of sports in 1964 and 1968.

Summary

Lou maybe gone now but his legacy that he leaves us with is this well written guide to making it as commercial cartoonist. This book has an extensive range of drawings, over 1,000 and great tips and techniques for getting your cartoons up to scratch and published by news journals guaranteed. Yep they guarantee that you will get your work published or your money back. Impressive.

Click here to learn more about Lou Darvas Course - Draw Cartoons Today!

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