Here’s a gift idea for you friends/relatives/encouragers/enablers out there: a beginning cartoonist’s starter kit!
To get your special person started in comics, just use the following checklist to buy him or her the basic tools of the trade:
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures will explain how to use all of this stuff!
Download your gift shopping checklist here and take it to your local art supply store (in fact, a well-stocked office supply store will carry a lot of this stuff). There are also plenty of places you can order these supplies on line, for example Dick Blick.