Patrick McDonnell

Patrick McDonnell is a cartoonist, author, and playwright best known for Mutts, the daily comic strip about a dog and a cat that has been syndicated since 1994. His picture book Me . . . Jane, about the childhood of Jane Goodall, won a Caldecott Honor in 2012, and The Gift of Nothing was adapted as a musical for the Kennedy Center stage. He also co-wrote Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman and wrote Tek, the Modern Cave Boy and A Perfectly Messed-Up Story.