Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book

  • Sasquatch's Big Hairy Drawing Book cover illustration and design and the original pitch cover art.
    Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book cover illustration and design and the original pitch cover art.
  • Many versions of the cover were created before we landed the biggest, hairiest, best one.
    Many versions of the cover were created before we landed the biggest, hairiest, best one.
  • Here's an illustration of the author, me, enjoying my royalties earned from the book. Help make this a reality. Buy the book!
    Here’s an illustration of the author, me, enjoying my royalties earned from the book. Help make this a reality. Buy the book!
  • Sasquatch's Big Hairy Drawing Book in action: A superb monster drawing from my editor Jay's nephew!
    Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book in action: A superb monster drawing from my editor Jay’s nephew!
  • Thumbnail sketches of cover design ideas from my sketchbook.
    Thumbnail sketches of cover design ideas from my sketchbook.
  • More sketchbook rough ideas. Playing around with lettering.
    More sketchbook rough ideas. Playing around with lettering.
  • Crude sketched out ideas for the "Funny Pages" section of the book and a doodle on the right that inspired the "Turtleneck Champ" page in the book.
    crude sketched out ideas for the “Funny Pages” section of the book and a doodle on the right that inspired the “Turtleneck Champ” page in the book.
  • What drawing activity do you get to do with these unsavory characters? Buy the book and find out.
    What drawing activity do you get to do with these unsavory characters? Buy the book and find out.

“Excellent.” – Super Punch

“What’s great about Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book is that it involves your imagination-and way too many artists have stopped using their imaginations.”- Bill Plympton, cartoonist/director

“What I love about Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book is that it really encourages kids to use their imagination – and most importantly to draw, draw and draw! ” -Fanboy.com

“This book is awesome. I’ll try to think of a better blurb than this book is awesome.” – Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time.

“This book dares you to get silly about drawing. An anxiety shattering process, especially for people who draw for a living. Like going to the gym where the only exercise is getting a massage.” – Tomer Hanuka, illustrator, teacher.

“This Sasquatch thing looks like so much fun-I want to draw on the vans first. It’s like you’ve made the perfect McD-style culmination of all the best games and puzzle draw-in books of yesteryear.” -Brandon Graham, comic book author/artist.

“I’ve been drawing in the Big Hairy Book with my grand kids. They love it, I love it, and-when I do a bad drawing I can blame it on Chris. Now that’s a great drawing book.” – Ralph Bakshi, cartoonist/director.

“Got . ‘Sasquatch’s Big Hairy Drawing Book’, and I hereby deem it to be my favorite of Sasquatch’s books”.-Jhonen Vasquez, creator of Invader Zim.