John Garvin's documentary on early comic strips and the Landon School of Illustrating and Cartooning. Why doesn't the History Channel do a coverage of comic strips as good as this? For Garvin's PDF reprint of Landon's course, go here.
Cartoonists who took the Landon course:
- Roger Armstrong
- Carl Barks
- Martin Branner
- Gene Byrnes
- George Clark
- Sid Couchey
- Milton Caniff
- Jack Cole
- Roy Crane
- William Donahey
- Edwina Dumm
- Ric Estrada
- Gil Fox
- Paul Fung Sr
- Floyd Gottfredson
- Vince Hamlin
- Ethel Hays
- Bill Holman
- Jud Hurd
- Ed Kuekes
- Stanley Link
- Fred Locher
- Bill Mauldin
- Ken Muse
- Fred Neher
- Gladys Parker
- Allen Saunders
- Frederick Siebel
- Dorman H. Smith
- J.R. Williams
- Chic Young
This is great and I have to say I'm completely blindsided by it. I had no idea that Mr. Garvin had done all this work. Just fascinating! Thanks for this and I have to run now and post about this on my blog! Thanks once more, Bhob!
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