The Art of Humorous Illustration

Humorous illustration is a vibrant and diverse art form, reflecting a wide range of attitudes and execution styles. For both humor-focused illustrators and artists eager to enhance this aspect of their work, the challenge of converting a comedic perspective into a visual medium is essential. The talented illustrators featured in this book, whose creations grace comic strips, magazines, paperbacks, greeting cards, and television, share insights on how they convey the spontaneity and essence of their humor on paper. This art form requires a solid foundation and discipline, coupled with a fertileand sometimes quirkyimagination and significant technical skill. The twelve accomplished artists showcased here provide a fascinating array of subject matter, techniques, and approaches, offering an intimate glimpse into their creative processes and lives.

Profusely illustrated interviews with Sergio Aragones, Paul Coker, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Johnny Hart, Al Jaffee, Bob Jones, Norman Rockwell, Arnold Roth, and Maurice Sendak. Each artist explains how he works in a variety of mediums with an analyses of tools and techniques. They discuss how they create and render cartoon figures, caricatures, animals, gag and panel cartoons, advertisements, and children’s book illustrations.

Over 150 black & white illustrations.

Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Soft bumped corners at the top spine and lower bottom corner. Cover and edge wear from age.