PATRICK MCDONNELL is the bestselling author, illustrator, playwright, painter, and creator of the comic strip Mutts, which appears in more than 700 newspapers around the world. He has received numerous awards internationally, including a Caldecott Medal and the Reuben Award, the highest honor given by the National Cartoonists Society. The Art of Nothing: 25 Years of Mutts and the Art of Patrick McDonnell, a career-spanning monograph, was published by Abrams ComicArts in 2019. He lives in New Jersey.