Патрик МакДоннелл: Суретші, карикатурашы және «Mutts» авторы

American illustrator
the American cartoonist
McDonnell's picture book, The Gift of Nothing, His work has been animated for television commercials, most notably a public service announcement for the NY Philharmonic. He is a co author of Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, published in 1986 by Abrams Books. McDonnell is involved with many animal and environmental charities. His characters have been used by the United States Marines, the American Library Association, and by the Humane Society of the United States. The Mutts characters appear on the New Jersey Animal Friendly license plates, which fund state pet population programs. He won the Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip eight times, and has been given four National Cartoonists Society Awards.

Patrick Luigi McDonnell was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of an Irish father and an Italian American mother. Early artistic influences were Charles M. Schulz, George Herriman, and E. C. Segar. graduating in 1978.

At SVA, McDonnell met a group of underground cartoonists, such as Peter Bagge and Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis (Kaz). Moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, shortly after graduating, McDonnell had some of his earliest professional drawings published in The Village Voice, and as "Jerseyana" in New Jersey Monthly magazine. Bad Baby was adapted into an animated TV movie in 1997. During that time he also was a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Forbes, Time, and many other national magazines. McDonnell's illustrations for magazines, books, and greeting cards earned him two National Cartoonists Society Awards in 1991. Mutts became syndicated, distributed by King Features Syndicate, starting in 1994. It won the Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2003. Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz said of Mutts, "To me, MUTTS is exactly what a comic strip should be." A book of McDonnell's life and work, Mutts: The Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell, was published in 2003 by Abrams Books. In 2005, McDonnell curated an exhibition — "Top Dogs: Comic Canines Before and After Snoopy" — at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. In 2011, McDonnell's children's book Me Jane was published. It is a story about naturalist Jane Goodall growing up and her awakening curiosity about the lives of animals around her. A sequence of Mutts strips led to Goodall's interest in working with McDonnell on the book. Me Jane won a Caldecott Honor in 2012. In 2010, the Mutts comic strip was appearing in more than 700 newspapers across 20 countries.