Should You Interrupt Long Straight Lines?

In his 1916 book Cartoons and Caricatures, Zim advises: “Avoid long straight or curved lines without some object breaking into them. They are inartistic and disturbing to the eye."

"Draw in your background as though you were arranging a stage setting, putting the various pieces of furniture in such positions as to break up the monotony of blank space and long lines. Frequently a good play falls flat owing to poor arrangement of objects on the stage.”

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From Cartoons and Caricatures or Making the World Laugh, by Zim, 1916, page 29.

Book in Print: The Lost Art of Zim: Cartoons and Caricatures