Above: details from a gorgeous clean line drawing by Bud Sagendorf from the Famous Artists Cartoon Course.
The Comicrazys blog gives us a treat: the entire 19 page section of the Famous Artists Cartoon Course, Lesson 15: Props and Backgrounds.
Comicrazys is, slowly but surely, building up an entire online scan of the Famous Artists Cartoon Course.
Chad Grothkopf provides some background on the Course at the ASIFA blog.
My dad took the Famous Cartoonists course in the 1950s and really enjoyed it. He was never more than a very talented amateur, but he did our Christmas cards each year and did newsletters and other things. Milton Caniff in particular was very encouraging. A few years before he died, he gave the books to a young would-be artist, which was a very nice gesture. But I wish he hadn't -- I'd love to see how he did!
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