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Summary: Smart, funny
Review: Don't give up on the idiot guides just yet. This one is the best one in a long time. The author makes sense of Adobe Illustrator with style. You build a comic strip from scratch throughout this book. You can use the author's cartoons that come on the CD-ROM, or you can follow the step-by-step instructions and draw your own. The author's art has a Magilla-Gorilla feel to it, plus there's a color insert with another original computer-rendered comic strip that's a send-up of 2001: A Space Odyssey -- I think.The author is a fine writer. He explains his subject thoroughly with an eye toward entertaining you. In the spirit of the idiot guides, there is plenty of good natured humor. This one is a great book for kids, too, by the way. A pleasure to flip through. All in all, a nice package!
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Summary: Glad to be an idiot.
Review: Fabulous way of writing so folks with most any level of computer comprehension will understand illustration, and have a blast learning. Am waiting for the 2004 version.
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Summary: Idiot for buying this book
Review: I do application development but not computer illustration. I wanted something simple to learn some basic functionality and the premise that the author used a step-be-step approach to create a comic strip was appealing. Unfortunately, his instructions don't often times work. Little items that he skips causes great frustration. This may be better than nothing but not by much.
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