In 1994, Patrick McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS which now appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries. 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.

The MUTTS cartoons have been published in seventeen 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 strips along with insightful commentary. McDonnell has also released five children‘s books since 2005, two of which were New York Times bestsellers.