Landon Course of Cartooning (Set) comic books 1955 or before

Complete set of the Landon Course of Cartooning (including the Landon School of Illustrating and Cartooning) developed by C.N. (Charles) Landon. Each booklet contains text pages followed by loose-leaf sheets illustrating the lesson. 8.25-in. x 11.5-in.; stapled along the top. Landon was an illustrator for The Cleveland Press, art director for the Newspaper Enterprise Association and art editor of Cosmopolitan. He is most notable as the founder of the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning, a mail-order correspondence course that trained a generation of leading syndicated cartoonists in drawing for publication. Landon's most successful students included Carl Barks, Merrill Blosser, Gene Byrnes, Milton Caniff, Jack Cole, Roy Crane, V.T. Hamlin, Ethel Hays, Bill Holman, and Chic Young. Chapter topics: Pen and Ink Lines, the Head, Expression, Hands and Feet, Comic Figures, Action, Women, Foreshortening and Exaggerated Action, Shading, Kids, Comic Animals, Perspective, Cartoon Details, Caricaturing, Shadows, the Comic Strip, Symbolic Animals, Symbolic Figures, Anatomy Lessons 1 and 2, Serious Cartoons, Composition 1 and 2, Cartoon Ideas, Newspaper Layouts, Lettering, Portraits, and Drawing from Photographs 1 and 2. Also includes the introductory booklet "Home Instruction in Cartooning or Illustrating" and the end-of-course booklet, "How to Market Your Ability."