The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity

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This Hardcover Book item from Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers was reviewed on 19-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. The people who draw comics or comic strips on a daily basis know that coming up with new ideas is not always the easiest thing to do. For anyone entering into the comics field...you will find this out.

Comic characters: check. Coloring for the comic: check. Storyline: check. Creating new ideas for the comic day in and day out: NOT SO SURE...Uh,Oh. This book will help you come up with fresh new ideas that will help drive your comic.

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2) Hardcover Book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.
Although there are a lot of cartoons in this book;its purpose is not only to give a collection of cartoons.
Mankoff attempts to analyze cartoons and show what it takes to make a cartoon funny.He goes through the process he uses in developing a cartoon.Obviously creative thinking is fundamental in any cartoon.
An approach of showing a drawing without a caption;and letting others create a caption.This can be a lot of fun and I have often tried it.As a matter of fact,I like to put aside the caption and come up with another.You don´t really need a cartoon drawing to do this. Any picture with people in it will sufice.
He also stresses that the cartoon should be viewed from left to right and the simpler the better.
I notice that there are mixed reviews on this book.I guess that is little wonder.Mankoff tries to disect a cartoon as one would using the scientific approach.He really proves that it is not possible ;because the human element takes over.No two humans are alike;therefore how different people see a cartoon will likewise vary.
Nonetheless,this is a good attempt by a professional cartoonist to show what makes a good,average,mediocre or excellent cartoon and after understanding what he talks about;you will be better equipped to enjoy a cartoon.¤

3) Hardcover Book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. This book fails at the stated task -- showing a process of generating cartoon and general creative ideas -- but succeeds nonetheless. Although I read the book cover-to-cover, I didn´t find it very educational about the process of creating new ideas or even evaluating existing ones. If you define comedy as `I´ll know it when I see it,´ this book doesn´t do much to expand beyond that. There is a brief section near the end where the author describes (with examples) the order of punch lines, but that´s about it.

Nonetheless, the book is chock-full of cartoons from the New Yorker that are exceptional in their breadth of humor and subtlety. You may learn only a few things from the text, but you´ll get a lot of smiles from the cartoons.

If you want to create cartoons and don´t know where to start, I would suggest picking up "The Cartoonist´s Workbook: Drawing, Writing Gags, Selling" by Robin Hall. Hall´s book is excellent at providing the mechanics of cartooning. Mankoff´s book then acts as an excellent companion volume of real world examples that strike the funny bone.
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4) Hardcover Book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. This book bored me to tears. Its not insightful - it doesnt really tell you ho wto be funny or how to come up with great cartoons. It just gives you a bunch of the authors cartoons and has the author waffle on about how good he is and what he was doing when he drew it etc. If you´ve ever read a book and thought - well did he actually say anything there then this is it. Terribel book. I was very disappointed. There are some great books on cartooning and this sure isnt one of them.¤

5) Hardcover Book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. Robert Mankoff, the Cartoon Editor of the NY Times has written the book purportedly as a learning guide for prospective cartoonists. Well, I don´t want to be a cartoonist, but I do love cartoons, especially those found in the New Yorker. In leafing through the book I began having doubts that the text of the book would provide much help for a fledgling cartoonist. After awhile you simply become oblivious to the written material and hone in on the many delightful cartoons. As the book says there are 400 of them in this volume, and, to me, that justified the purchase price.

This book is certainly as good as any of the other books that form part of the New Yorker cartoon book library, and if you are a devotee of pictorial humor do pick up a copy.¤

6) Hardcover Book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. Only people like that buy books like this...or write them."

So says Robert Mankoff—and he should know. As cartoon editor of The New Yorker, and one of its most gifted contributors, he spends his life pursuing that elusive thing called creativity, and inspring it in others. If you´ve ever wondered where great ideas come from, or yearned to channel your creative energies, or just wanted some pointers on how to get those artisitic juices flowing—this book was written for you.

Along with some help from his well-known cartoonist friends, Mankoff takes you on an entertaining words-and-pictures journey through the art, craft, and zen of cartooning, along the way providing lots of personal anecdotes about his development as an artist, and about life at the world´s most urbane magazine. But you don´t have to be an aspiring cartoonist to appreciate The Naked Cartoonist. Mankoff´s wisdom, and his practical yet whimsical approach to the creative process, are designed to benefit anyone who has ever stared at a blank piece of paper or canvas and dreamed of transforming it into something truly original (and maybe even commercial).

What´s so funny? Mankoff knows best. He also knows how you can find your own personal voice and mesage, how you can learn from the masters of the past, how you can transform a current event into a comic tour-de-force...even how you can incorporate telling lies and taking naps into your daily work routine—and justify it.¤

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