Location: Australia
Member Since: Dec. 12, 2019

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Stephen Stanley

Biography

I was born at an early age in Liverpool in England and started to send cartoons to newspapers when I was ten years old. The family moved to Australia when I was sixteen and after working as a sign writer for a while I got my big break in cartooning and spent about twenty happy years doing comic strips and cartoons for magazines like PLAYBOY. Then one day I fell out of a tree (don;t ask what I was doing up it) and broke my drawing arm. Ouch! After that I decided that drawing books would be easier than the sort of daily cartooning I had been doing. I'd already illustrated a lot of books but was able to sell a series of books to SCHOLASTIC: PUZZLE PLANETS, PUZZLE BODY, PUZZLE HEROES, PUZZLE ANIMALS etc, which sold very well, then went on to self-publish a series of six 'how to draw' books such as HOW TO DRAW PIRATES, HOW TO DRAW HANDS, HOW TO DRAW ALIENS AND ROBOTS, and since then I've illustrated lots of books for various authors and published a lot of my own titles. It beats working for a living. You can see most of my books at www.stancartoons.com

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
I've been sending cartoons to newspapers and magazines since I was ten years old-although I never sold anything until my late teens. Since then I've worked full-time firstly as a cartoonist and more recently as the author/illustrator of mostly children's books. (about 80 books to date.)
What's the story behind your latest book?
WHEELCHAIR WORLD is a picture book without words and was prompted, as a lot of my books are, by thinking about an alternative world: one where everybody is confined to a wheelchair and how that might change society and hopefully make people think differently about disability.
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Where to find Stephen Stanley online

Website: http://stancartoons.com

Where to buy in print

http://stancartoons.com

Books

Stephen Stanley's Puzzle Body Coloring In Book by
Price: Free! Words: 30. Language: English. Published: December 21, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Activity Books
A FREE PDF downloadable book featuring scenes and characters from STEPHEN STANLEY'S PUZZLE BODY, the hugely popular puzzle book featuring a human body invaded by fifty 'bugs'.
Twelve Mindless Zombies by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 70. Language: English. Published: December 16, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Monsters
Twelve mindless zombies are on the loose. Count them down as they each meet a grizzly end in this book that's sure to please all zombie fans.
Stephen Stanley's The Other Side Of Squarex by
Price: Free! Words: 70. Language: English. Published: December 15, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Activity Books
This FREE PDF download shows the 'missing' three sides of the planet SQUAREX from Stephen Stanley's popular puzzle book, PUZZLE PLANETS. Explore the rest of Squarex!
Stephen Stanley's Puzzle Body Solutions by
Price: Free! Words: 50. Language: English. Published: December 14, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Concepts / Body
A guide to locating all of the fifty bugs who have invaded a human body in the book STEPHEN STANLEY'S PUZZLE BODY.
Wheelchair World by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 70. Language: English. Published: December 12, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Alternative history
Come to a world where everybody is confined to a wheelchair, from pre-history and the time of the dinosaurs to outer space and the first wheelchair on the moon! A book with no text but full seventy halftone illustratrions.

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