A new book arrived at The Labyrinth, here in Toronto, last Wednesday and it was one that I had been looking forward to checking out.
Dave Gibbons is an artist, who's work I have grown up with and I was eager to see what gems of information, he was going to impart.
Comic books and the techniques that make the cartoons on their pages, read like mini movies, are catnip to me.
On the plus side, the book turned out to be a very lucid look at all of the techniques employed by a comic book artist
BUT
it was all rather flat and rather shallow.
Granted, that a book on the subject, that covered every aspect of cartooning, would be huge and quite possibly too deep for the average student in the class
BUT
I would have loved to have seen a few in-depth tutorials, where Dave Gibbons walked us through his approach to designing pages and panels.
I am not trying to run the book down, or say that it isn't worth the money that I paid for it, I am just giving my opinion on it. I have most of the "How to Make Comic Books" books, that have been published over the years and they all have valuable things to teach a willing student.
Way back, in the mid-Seventies, Dave Gibbons contributed this cover to Dez Skinn's Fantasy Advertiser International #54
It has been a long and illustrious career, during which, Dave has made his own, significant, contribution to the medium and I salute him, whole heartedly, for all his hard work and the way it has enriched my life.
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