About Toon's Tunes

Toon's Tunes is the first ever comic that teaches music!

And ancient pinky painting for the elderly. =)

We are the only small press comic publisher that produces music educational comics and cartoons.

Our mission is to use comics and cartoons to educate, empower and entertain the next generation of musicians to become music entrepreneurs…

So, be prepared to get your ribs tickled. =)

Why use comics and cartoons?

The human mind processes visual images 60,000 times faster than it does text and humor is a big ice breaker as well.

Most folks don’t read or can’t, “Thanks Mr. Public Education”.  I’m lucky I can even type this at my old diaper wearing age.  If our young feeble pee brains can comprehend images that fast, then why do we use “TEXTBOOKS” in school? Food for thought.

Why not visual books, like magazines or even comics?   By George, that’s what we do here. Good thinking Mr. Aragon!

If you’ve read this far then you’re such a smarty pants.

That’s why the U.S. ranks 20th for reading in the world. I’m going to print out a 20th place badge and wear it with pride. I’m proud to be an American. Yee-haw!

WHO'S THE CARTOONIST?​

Roland of Aragon is a cartoonist, best-selling author, music educator, professional musician, songwriter and entrepreneur, based in Los Angeles, CA.  He loves long walks on the freeway during rush hour, McDonald’s chocolate dipped ice cream cone, punching annoying people and reading on the toilet. He dislikes dying, the fed and Justin Bieber.

Here’s a teeny weeny bit of what he’s done in the past 20 years. Performed and traveled with Award-winning artists such as Yolanda AdamsOzomatliMatthai from the show ‘The Voice”, Actress and singer Rhea Bailey, sister of Corrine Bailey Rae, International Hong Kong Legend Francis YipNiki CrawfordJoshua Paige and Israel Houghton just to name a few. Even though he has traveled the world and have gotten the privilege to grace the stage with world-class musicians he’s still hustling for that next gig, it’s a never ended battle, so he became a cartoonist and entrepreneur.

For the last 15 years, he taught and reached thousands of music students, working in schools like Yamaha Music Academy. Studied animation at the American Animation Institute in Burbank, Ca and Cerritos College. He’s also studied music at Cerritos College and Fullerton College, all schools are located in southern California.

Also is the author of Amazon’s best-selling guitar book, “The Only Beginners Guitar Book You’ll Ever Need!”. Featured on New York Times Best Selling Cartoonist, Gavin Aung’s site Zen Pencils

A little more about me. Click below.
4 Scary, Embarrassing Moments in my Life

Why did you create Toon's Tunes?

As a kid, I wanted to grow up and become a cartoonist and musician. I ended up becoming a music educator and professional musician instead. I lost my passion for cartooning in my young adult years because I got bit by the music bug.

One day teaching a young guitar student, I got frustrated with one of the music method books, because the material was lacking in certain areas and plus music method books are just instructional manuals.

Here’s a fact: People hate instruction manuals, but they love stories because stories have emotion and conflict into them and instruction manuals don’t.

I thought to myself, “What if I can create a story with embedded music lessons. Or even better, how about a comic book with music lessons?” I think young musicians will totally dig it. My passions for cartoons was reborn, now with both passions combined I believe it’s a great combination.

That’s how Toon’s Tunes was birthed into infancy.

FAQ

Most frequent questions and answers

Expect to laugh and giggle like a little school girl and learn music as well. Each story is embedded with real music lessons and music entrepreneurship tips written from an actual living, breathing pro musician.

Awesome! Click here and you can submit your question. Just give me a bit of time to answer, my inbox always gets full of questions.

I taught guitar, bass, and piano for almost 20 years and I loved it, but since then I started this site it has taken up a lot of my time. I had over 40 weekly private lessons, which ate up most of my week, so I decided to take an early retirement to dedicate to this site and other business ventures.

Expect a new comic lesson 1-2 per week.

My power would be to have the greatest memory of all time and control peoples thoughts.  Muahahaha!