A Quick Book Review
rogersgeorge on October 12th, 2017
If you’re looking for something to get me for Christmas, this book would be perfect.
It’s The Lexicon of Comicana, by Mort Walker, the writer of Beetle Bailey. Here’s the cover:
Amazon’s blurb can’t be beat, so I’ll just quote it:
Written as a satire on the comic devices cartoonists use, the book quickly became a textbook for art students. Walker researched cartoons around the world to collect this international set of cartoon symbols. The names he invented for them now appear in dictionaries.
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