Pocket Cartoon Course — Lessons 9–11

This instructional sequence teaches cartooning fundamentals through three focused lessons. Lesson 9 catalogs hat styles and silhouettes, training the eye to observe everyday objects as design elements. Lesson 10 emphasizes narrative structure: every cartoon must tell a story, not merely depict action. The instruction advocates sketching ideas on 8×11 paper and mining current events—government, holidays, labor—for subject matter. Lesson 11 demonstrates political cartooning, showing how to label public figures (taxpayers, Congress members) and build satirical commentary. Together, these pages reveal the working method behind newspaper comic strips and editorial cartoons: systematic observation, clear storytelling, and the purposeful use of labeled characters to convey topical humor. The dense prose and hand-drawn examples exemplify how cartoonists of this era learned their craft.