Christopher Hart, HUMONGOUS BOOK OF CARTOONING author, illustrator: Mr. Media Radio Interview

Sketch this! Mr Media welcomes Humongous Book of Cartooning author Christopher Hart!

Chris Hart is the author of Humongous Book of Cartooning
and the award winning book series, Manga Mania. His books have sold over 2.5 million copies, in 22 languages. Since 2000, he has had 20 books on the top 50 best-selling list in the overall art category in the nation, according to Nielsen Bookscan.

Chris is also the writer of The Reformed, a manga graphic novel for Del Rey Manga, a division of Random House. It has been selected as one of the best vampire stories by the website About.com.

Hart's Humongous Book of Cartooning is a great value book covering everything the beginner needs to master cartooning. It teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts, background design and much more. This latest cartoon title from Hart packs a wallop. It's the cartooning book that has it all: cartoon people, animals, retro-style "toons'", funny robots (no one has ever done cartoon robots in a how-to book before, and movies like Wall-E and Robots were smash hits and prove their appeal), fantasy characters and even sections on cartoon costumes, character design, and cartoon backgrounds and composition.

The Humongous Book of Cartooning is humongous, not only because it's so big, but also because it includes a huge amount of original eye-catching characters and copious visual "side hints" that Chris is famous for. There is more actual instruction in this book than in any other of Chris' cartooning titles.