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If your media-savvy child has ever expressed an interest in cartooning, here’s a book he or she will love — “Modern Cartooning: Essential Techniques for Drawing Today’s Popular Cartoons” ...

Created by the Center for Cartoon Studies' director and two of his former students, this how-to-make-comics book for young readers takes a couple of unusual tacks. For one thing, it skips the usual ...