Discover the tricks of the cartooning trade with these big, happy books from Emmy-nominated PBS TV drawing teacher Bruce Blitz. The Blitz Big Book of Cartooning contains 320 pages of cartooning examples, instruction, tips, tricks, how-to lessons and inspiration.

Bruce introduces kids to the materials they'll need...which pencils and markers work best, working with undersketches and erasers, types of paper. Next they'll learn about basic drawing elements like shape, form, tone, shade, texture, perspective and composition.

Then the fun begins! Kids will learn to cartoon funny faces, amazing animals, busling backgrounds, cartoon characters and their worlds. This is a huge book filled with ideas and step-by-step lessons. Every cartoonist, youngsters to adults, will return to the Blitz Big Book of Cartooning again and again through the years for Bruce's great ideas and techniques.