Adventures in Cartooning: Characters in Action (Enhanced Edition)

Ages 6 to 10

This enhanced and expanded edition of Adventures in Cartooning: Characters in Action contains over forty new pages filled with adventure and cartooning lessons!

The Knight, Edward the Horse, and the Magical Cartooning Elf are back, and sharing the stage with a cast of kooky characters. The famous director Otto Airs is making a movie, and he’s invited everyone in the kingdom to audition! It’s up to you to dream up and draw new characters to star in the film. Design a disguise for an undercover spy and give a superhero a makeover. Discover how body language can help tell your story, and how unique costumes can make your characters stand out from the crowd. Before long, you'll have all the tools you need to create original characters for your own comic book!

About the Author

James Sturm is a cartoonist and cofounder of The Center for Cartoon Studies. His books include Off Season, Market Day, and The Golem’s Mighty Swing.

Andrew Arnold is an author/illustrator and the editorial director of the graphic novel imprint HarperAlley. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and son.

When Alexis Frederick-Frost was little, he made a comic about a smelly sock. Now that he’s an adult, he creates graphic novels like Adventures in Cartooning.