Back in the late Eighties and the early Nineties, I would occasionally buy a copy of the tabloid sized,
The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom
and one of the items of interest in it,
was Mark Martin's comic strip.
Occasionally, he would make the strip a kind of simple tutorial and one of them, obviously, made an impression on me, to the point where I copied it out!
Once again, the information seems forehead smacking-ly obvious and yet, no less worth noting, since many young cartoonists overlook these basic ideas, in their quest for the "magic" that will make them great!
I know, because I was one of that unwashed mass!
The truth is, there is no "magic", there is just hard work and learning how to apply some basic principles.
Thank you for listening, to an old man ramble on.
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