I got this book mostly for me, a parent, to help me create little story books (or comics, if you will) for my kids, ages 4 and 5. I flipped through the book very briefly in a bookstore before buying it. I thought my kids might be interested in it a bit, but I got it for me. Well, after I got it home, they wanted me to read it to them, and I was surprised by how good the storyline is. They love it! All of the explanations about how comics work (i.e. when the Magic Elf explains what a panel is and what its function is, etc etc) were as interesting to them as the story itself. They like figuring out how things work, and learning how a storybook works is just as interesting to them as learning about wolves or dinosaurs or princesses or whatever. The only problem is that whenever I get the book out to look at the information in the back about how to draw the characters, the kids immediately want me to read to them, so I haven't been able to start creating my own story for them. :)
In conclusion, this books works very well on two levels: it works well as a storybook for kids who are too young to be creating their own comics, and it also works well to explain how to make comics if that's what you want to do. It's great!
Get more detail about Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics.
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