The Struggling Cartoonist

by Professor Mark Stephen Smith

Overview

If you enjoyed Roger Rabbit and Cool World, consider what would happen with a dash of Inkheart and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween? In THE STRUGGLING CARTOONIST, cartoon characters burst out of an artist's sketchbook, along with rampaging fantasy illustrations, into a crowded couple's apartment with hazardous results...While cleaning out his art studio, adjunct animation Prof. Mark Toonery accidentally unleashes a dozen drawings into the real world of his two-bedroom apartment. He and his wife Lisa must suddenly share their living space with rejected drawings from Saturday morning cartoons and comics. Deadbeat Skunk, Sezquatch the Bigfoot, Arsonist Space Squirrels, and even fantasy illustrations like a winged gargoyle and an impossibly huge giant soon crowd the hallway. Worse yet, not all the characters are entirely friendly...Although mad scientist Dr. Ratnest seems to have turned over a new leaf in the third dimension, his predictably twisted lab assistant, a psychopathic platypus named Daggur Bill, has to be confined to Lisa's linen closet. When Dr. Ratnest refuses to plot the platypus' escape, the sabertoothed sidekick decides to take matters into his own diabolical hands.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162189084
Publisher:	Mountain Arbor Press, an Imprint of BookLogix
Publication date:	02/28/2021
Series:	Professor Mark Stephen Smith , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Professor Mark Stephen Smith has been teaching animation for nearly thirty years. He started with Video Animation, the very class that brought him to Auburn University Montgomery, where he got his Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design.
In 2000, his first book was published, The Lost World Adventures, based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes), which Prof. Mark adapted and illustrated.
After his wife got a job offer in Atlanta, he moved to join her there, figuring it would be an opportunity to become a full-time animator at Cartoon Network. Although he tried out for a couple of shows, an hour-long tutorial on Flash (now Adobe Animate) opened his eyes to the possibilities of being a freelance anima¬tor. About this time, he began teaching at Westwood College, and started writing his second book, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning.
He later joined Art Institute Atlanta, and more recently Kennesaw State and Clayton University online. He com¬pleted his Master’s of Science in Information Design and Communication at SPSU, which is now Kennesaw State.
Prof. Mark lives near Atlanta with his wife, daughter, a dog, and two birds. He produces freelance animation for TV commercials, book promos, and short films, and has won three Telly Awards and an Addy for Best Sales Video.
His puppet film, That There Hawbit: A Redneck Puppet Parody, won a Bronze Award in the Best Parody Category of the Independent Shorts Awards, a Los Angeles Film Festival. Soon afterward, My Sketchy Recollection (an animated trailer for this very book) soon followed in the same film festival, this time winning a Gold Award in the Best Trailer/Teaser Category. The same film also won a Silver Award for Best Animation Short.
Prof. Mark’s website is Cartoonyville.com.