Wherever you look, crazy cartoon characters are leaping out from comic book pages, billboards, computer games and TV screens. Find out how to inject humour into your artwork and create your own fresh and funny characters with bags of personality and appeal. Discover how to simplify, exaggerate and distort your designs to hilarious effect; bend the rules of anatomy to give your characters funny bones; and create madcap expressions, riotous body language, and slapstick action sequences. Experiment with a range of media, from pen to ink to paint and pixels, and learn the techniques to turn flat cartoons into side-splitting three-dimensional comic creations, complete with humorous props and backgrounds.