Roy Crane kept a detailed scrapbook for his assistant to follow, in order to maintain his high standards. Parts of this scrapbook were published in two magazines, Cartoonist Profiles and The Hairy Green Eyeball. A big thanks to The Temple of Seven Camels, where I found the jpg files of the scrapbook.
There are two short interviews with Crane and over thirty pages from his scrapbook, like the sample below. I keep this by my drawing table for quick and easy reference. It is a goldmine of solid principles for cartooning. All of the examples that he included are from his Buzz Sawyer strip. And, there are several unfinished examples, in pencil, of an unpublished strip he created called The Lost World.
So as a little holiday gift for you readers, I took the liberty of compiling all of these individual jpgs and converting them to a single PDF file. To my knowledge, this material is out of print, and is within the public domain.
Click the following link to download the complete file. Roy Crane Scrapbook
Look. Learn. And enjoy!!!!
