Chato Stewart is a husband, father and mental health advocate. He is an artist and the cartoonist behind the Mental Health Humor cartoons. He creates positive, provoking, and sometimes even funny cartoons! The cartoons are drawn from his personal experience of living with Bipolar Disorder. Mr. Stewart strongly believes that there is power behind humor. His motto is humor gives help, hope and healing. His goal and mission is to tap into humor and use it as a positive tool to cope with the serious and debilitating effects of mental illness.

Chato B. Stewart is a Florida board Certified Recovery Peer Specialist - A (CRPS-A). Chato is also the 1st place winner of the DBSA 2009 Facing Us Video Contest. In his powerful public service announcement, he tells his personal story of living with a mental illness through a montage of his cartoons. Adding to his little list of accomplishments is being part of the 2010 DBSA Stand-Up for Mental Health comedy night and being invited back for the 2011 Conference to be a Stand-Up comic in the show.

To learn more about Chato B. Stewart and to view his cartoons visit:
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/humor or www.mentalhealthhumor.com

Make sure you check out his annual May Mental Health Awareness Month Cartoon-A-Thon where he draws 31 Mental health heroes each year. www.mentalhealthcartoons.com