CARTOONS. Raye Burns. The Raye Burns Course of Cartooning. Parts I and II (Lessons 1-14; 15-26). Together, the first 2 volumes of the popular course guides. Each lesson contains a full plate with multiple instructional illustrations. Tall thin folio, printed pictorial wrappers, scattered soiling. Part II lacking rear cover and top band, dampstaining to cover and first five leaves. Np: Privately Printed by Burns, 1931-32
part I is signed in pencil by burns after the foreword. Its lessons include: The Morgue, Pen and Ink Lines. Heads, Expressions, Hands, Feet, Bodies, Action, Wrinkles, Women, Shading, Shadows, Exaggerated action, and Kids. Part II treats Perspective, Cartoon Details, Animals, Symbolic Figures, Caricaturing, Anatomy, Composition, Cartoon Lettering, Comic Strips, Sport Cartoons, Getting Ideas, Selling Your Work.
