Patrick McDonnell

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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. His first high-profile ongoing freelance work was providing illustrations for the Russell Baker Observer column for The New York Times Sunday Magazine from 1978 to 1993. His work on the Observer column got McDonnell interested in the idea of eventually doing a comic strip.

McDonnell created a monthly comic strip, Bad Baby, for Parents Magazine, which ran for ten years. The Bad Baby strips were collected and published by Ballantine Books in 1988. 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 2006, the Mutts characters were featured in the United States Marines' Toys for Tots holiday poster, and in 2007 were part of the American Library Association's "Read!" poster. The 2007-2008 Mazdaspeed Team featured Mutts-themed vehicles promoting pet adoption and the work of the Humane Society of the United States. He also created a set of "humane postage stamps" for the Humane Society.

In 2009 McDonnell collaborated with author Eckhart Tolle to create Guardians of Being, a philosophical book about nature and the present moment. 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.

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• Helen Hayes Award for The Gift of Nothing musical (at The Kennedy Center) – Best Adaptation 2015
• Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, 2011, given at the Eisner Awards
• PETA Humanitarian Award 2001
• National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year 1999
• National Cartoonists Society's Award for Comic Strip of the Year 1999
• National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award (nominee) 1997 and 1998
• Germany's Max & Moritz Prize for Best International Comic Strip 1998
• Swedish Academy of Comic Art's Adamson Statuette 1997
• Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip (for Mutts) 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010
• Ark Trust Genesis Award 1997, 1999
• National Cartoonists Society Award for Greeting Cards 1991
• National Cartoonists Society Award for Magazine and Book Illustration 1991