Watched a great documentary on Charles N. Landon's "mail-order correspondence course that trained a generation of leading syndicated cartoonists in drawing for publication." Direct link to Landon video here, and my You Tube channels for Cartooning and Editorial Cartooning.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine, Sept 1925
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Landon was the Art Director for the 1902 precursor to United Media, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, and in 1909 he founded a school in Cleveland from which he culled the top talented students for publication.
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| Popular Science, April 1920 (hat-tip Figure Drawing blog) |
Many of these creators are counted amongst the pantheon of cartooning greats: Carl Barks, Gladys Parker (Mopsy), Roy Crane (Wash Tubbs/Buz Sawyer), Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates/Steve Canyon), Gil Fox, Bill Mauldin, and “the nation’s first full-time female editorial cartoonist,” Edwina Dunn (more here).
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