1. Patrick McDonnell was born on March 17,1956 and is a cartoonist, author, and playwright.
13 Facts About Patrick McDonnell
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Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts, which follows the adventures of a dog and a cat, that has been syndicated since 1994.
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Patrick McDonnell's work has been animated for television commercials, most notably a public service announcement for the NY Philharmonic.
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Patrick McDonnell is a co-author of Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, published in 1986 by Abrams Books.
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Patrick McDonnell's characters have been used by the United States Marines, the American Library Association, and by the Humane Society of the United States.
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Patrick McDonnell won the Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip eight times, and has been given four National Cartoonists Society Awards.
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Patrick Luigi McDonnell was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of an Irish father and an Italian-American mother.
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Patrick McDonnell was raised in Edison, New Jersey and, after graduating from Edison High School in 1974, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York on scholarship, graduating in 1978.
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At SVA, McDonnell met a group of underground cartoonists, such as Peter Bagge and Kazimieras G Prapuolenis.
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Patrick McDonnell created a monthly comic strip, Bad Baby, for Parents Magazine, which ran for ten years.
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Patrick McDonnell created a set of "humane postage stamps" for the Humane Society.
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In 2009 Patrick McDonnell collaborated with author Eckhart Tolle to create Guardians of Being, a philosophical book about nature and the present moment.
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Patrick McDonnell has been a vegetarian since around 1990 and a vegan since 2005.