All molestation aside, this guy was more-or-less spot on with his advocacy and criticism, in my imo, even if he was extremely autistic in expressing it and his own work often failed to live up to it. I've already got the Preston Blair book, but I'd like to take things a step farther and try to give myself an approximation of the sort of art education/training that a cartoonist would have received in the early 20th Century. Are you folks aware of any good pre-WWII educational resources that you would recommend for this purpose?
Classical drawing education
Landon Brooks
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Benjamin Johnson
>this guy was more-or-less spot on with his advocacy and criticism
No he fucking wasn't. He basically sparked the movement to kill off good writing in cartoons. Now cartoons don't have writers at all anymore which is a big part of why they're unwatchable
Cartoons need scripts. Writing and drawing are completely different skills best done by completely different people.
Asher Torres
The greatest cartoons of all time didn't need scripts.
>Writing and drawing are completely different skills best done by completely different people.
This is precisely why "writing" cartoons is (and always has been) such a terrible idea.
Gavin Davis
>The greatest cartoons of all time didn't need scripts.
The greatest cartoons of all time almost invariably had scripts, and brilliant ones at that. You literally can't make a non-shit dramatic series without them, but even great comedic cartoons had far more scripting than "cartoons" today get.
But I'm guessing you're that user who thinks Western animation peaked with Looney Tunes
Isaac Gomez
>The greatest cartoons of all time almost invariably had scripts, and brilliant ones at that.
[citation needed]
>You literally can't make a non-shit dramatic series without them, but even great comedic cartoons had far more scripting than "cartoons" today get.
[citation needed]
>But I'm guessing you're that user who thinks Western animation peaked with Looney Tunes
There are some good things in contemporary cartoons, but most of the time they're too amateurish and stiff to hold my interest.
Sebastian Rodriguez
But cartoons do have writers? Have you read the ending credits?
Zachary Adams
Posting a much better teacher who stood a virgin until he got married (as it's supposed to be).
Robert Lewis
>But cartoons do have writers? Have you read the ending credits?
Current cartoons do NOT have writers, only storyboarders who also do the "writing" (basically just dialogue, which is why everything else is so awful). I suggest you read the credits yourself user.
This has been the case for most of the 10s btw
Justin Scott
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Anthony Brooks
Already done.