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Patrick McDonnell (born March 17, 1956) is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts. In 1994...

Patrick McDonnell (born March 17, 1956) is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts. In 1994 McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS which now appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries. MUTTS has been described by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz as "one of the best comic strips of all time." McDonnell has received numerous awards for this strip, including the National Cartoonists Society’s highest honor, The Reuben, for Cartoonist of the Year, five Harvey Awards for Best Comic Strip, Germany’s Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip, and the Swedish Academy of Comic Art’s Adamson Statuette. MUTTS has also won awards for its environmental and animal advocacy: two Genesis Awards from The Ark Trust, The HSUS Hollywood Genesis Award for Ongoing Commitment, the PETA Humanitarian Award, and a Sierra Club award. The MUTTS cartoons have been published in eighteen compilation books in the U.S. and in numerous collections throughout the world. In 2003, fine art publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc., published MUTTS: The Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell, a monograph on McDonnell’s career. In 2007, The Best of MUTTS, was released containing a decade of McDonnell’s favorite