Create Your Own Cartoons Drawing Kit

by Paul Brett Johnson

A Complete Kit for Kids from 6 to 106! Join the cartooning craze! This is the perfect introductory kit for kids of all ages who want to learn the fascinating art of cartooning. inside is everything needed to get started, including a step-by-step drawing book jam-packed with cartooning techniques, tips, and ideas. Begin with the basics, such as deciding what to draw and developing characters. Then find tips on how to add humor and create a good story line--plus tricks for putting words in the characters’ mouths. Aspiring artists will quickly discover how easy it is to draw their very own cartoon creations! This kit is great because all the art tools are safe and nontoxic. And, most important, it helps everyone discover the cartoonist inside themselves! Don’t wait! Start now! This kit o Create Your Own Cartoons, a wacky book about the art of--what else?--cartooning!
o Nontoxic felt tip markers in eye-popping colors
o Cartooning sketch pad
o Stencils
o Drawing pencil
o Sharpener
o Eraser

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Paul Brett was a painter and children’s book writer/illustrator who grew up in the small town of Mousie, Kentucky, in Knott County. He was asked once in an interview to locate Mousie. He said: “Mousie is over there around Onion Blade, Dismal, Possum Trot, Sassafras, and Right and Left Beaver. But, if you haven’t been to Knott County, you may not be able to locate those places, either.”
That response was quintessential Paul Brett Johnson, a man of deep humor, good will, and immense artistic talent who honored his mountain upbringing in his work. Because he showed talent as a young child, his parents secured art lessons for him, and he made drawing and painting his life’s work.
After nearly a decade of trying to break through in the children’s book market, he finally saw success in 1993 with the release of The Cow Who Wouldn’t Come Down, a School Library Journal Best Book, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, and one of the New York Public Library's "One Hundred Books for Reading and Sharing." He eventually produced two companion books of these funny, outrageous tales of a farm woman and her adventurous animals, The Goose Who Went Off in a Huff, and The Pig Who Ran a Red Light. His art was whimsical, colorful, and full of motion that delighted children and adults alike. He was most fond of giving animals a sly (and hilarious) sense of humor and keen intelligence—traits that often matched his own. Eventually he wrote and illustrated over 20 books for children and served as illustrator for several other children’s book writers including George Ella Lyon, James Still, and Margaret Hodges.