The Struggling Cartoonist - by Mark Stephen Smith (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

Adjunct animation Prof. Mark Toonery accidentally unleashes a dozen drawings into the real-world of his two-bedroom apartment. While most of the rejects from Saturday morning cartoons prove friendly, a trio of villains cause problems for the artist and his wife Lisa. As reformed mad scientist Dr. Ratnest attempts to help Prof. Mark with his website, his predictably twisted lab assistant, a sabertoothed platypus, plots his escape from the hallway linen closet. At the appearance of an impossibly huge giant from a fantasy illustration, however, the psychopathic platypus may have found just the distraction he was waiting for...