Penguin Books Australia

Perfect pocket size guide to penning your own cartoons. Dave Hackett is incredibly knowledgable about his craft and adept at explaining it to those who've never tried. Great fun, chock full of information, a hands-on guide to the budding cartoonist in us all.

If you had a crazy family, a bag of frozen peas, 70 Hawaiian shirts, a tyre-swan, a shoplifter, a social cling-on, a scarily attractive girl, a cool dude, a crazy activity coordinator and a fully volcanic island, you could have written this novel. But relax - all you need to do is read it!

It's a whole shipload of fun from the wild pen of Dave Hackett, a.k.a. Cartoon Dave, that will have you chuckling...

Dave Hackett (a.k.a. Cartoon Dave)'s first novel is a hilarious whodunit. Finally, a family outing you won't want to miss!

But in the family rule book, scribed in the blood of our ancestors, it clearly states that there are some journeys you must undertake...

How do you take a normal face and turn it into an outrageous, exaggerated cartoon that still looks like the person it's supposed to be?

Cartoon Dave shares a stack of all-new tips, techniques and trade secrets to help you create caricatures of your friends, family and favourite fab faces, in the coolest cartoon challenge yet!