Ivan Brunetti has published several graphic novels and taught courses on editorial illustration and comics at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. His drawings have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and he served as editor for Yale University Press's two-volume Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories.
A simple yet sophisticated guide . . . inculcate[s] a sense of cartoons as an essentially literary form. -Wall Street Journal A simple yet sophisticated guide . . . [with] a warm sense of humor. -Wall Street Journal [Brunetti] comes across as that one, quirky, transformative teacher who brings a subject to life . . . enormously empowering. . . . More than any other instructional book, Brunetti's has the potential to create cartoonists. -Bill Kartalopoulos, Publishers Weekly Ivan Brunetti's little classroom-in-a-book Cartooning: Philosophy and Practiceis probably my favourite book about drawing comics.Brunetti gets to the heart of what makes a comic a comic. -John Martz, Drawn blog Winner of the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly work category The goal of this book is to fuse elements of both writing and drawing into another form altogether: cartooning. We will use pictures as words and words as pictures. If you follow the advice presented herein, you will begin to see the world through the eyes of a cartoonist. -from the Introduction This is the best book ever written, as far as I'm concerned. . . . It's the best book I've ever read on cartooning, and it's so generous. It's like, anybody can do this. The book is so good. -Lynda Barry, cartoonist