Kyrgios

About the author:

Sam Harvey is a popular sports blogger (Bell At A Goat), podcaster and writer with a keen sports journalistic eye. He has written columns for On Ya Warnie author Ken Piesse’s Pavillion magazine and Kyrgios is his first book collaboration. Illustrator Paul Harvey (Harv) is Sam’s dad. Paul Harvey (Harv) is one of Australia’s most talented, diverse, and accomplished artists. Based in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and three kids, ‘Harv’ as he is known is widely celebrated for his work. A cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator, and author Harv has many strings to his bow. He has had a long working relationship with sporting bodies and turns his hand to everything from designing merchandise and on-field apparel to mascots and club logos. He’ll even caricature the retiring player or administrator and help you celebrate that Premiership. He illustrates an illuminated certificate for the AFL Brownlow medallist and AFLW best & fairest recipient each year. Under the name Harv-Time he creates limited edition prints of sport’s greatest moments. Harv has also been prolific in the book department, being involved with around 60 books as the illustrator, including On Ya Warnie and Kyrgios - The Smash Hits. His coffee table book Harv’s Footy Stars celebrates 30 years of caricaturing the AFL’s greatest. He has also written and illustrated two children’s books – The Mighty Bunyips and The Invincible Bunyips. “Working on Kyrgios – The Smash Hits with my son Sam is one of life’s pinch me moments. He is a terrific writer and collaborating on a fun and factual book about one of Australia’s and the World’s most enigmatic and polarising sportspeople has been a joy.”