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Mutts #Treasury 8
Cat Crazy: A Mutts Treasury
Earl and Mooch are back in a collection of a year's worth of color Sunday and black-and-white daily cartoons.
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2013
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About the author
Patrick McDonnell
182 books390 followersPatrick McDonnell’s comic strip, MUTTS, is celebrating its 30th anniversary, having appeared in over 700 newspapers across 20 countries. MUTTS has received numerous awards for its artistry and its animal and environmental themes. These include the NCS Reuben for Cartoonist of the Year, seven Harveys and the Eisner Humanitarian Award. Charles Schulz called MUTTS “One of the best comics strips of all time.”
BREAKING THE CHAIN: THE GUARD DOG STORY, a collection of his newsworthy story centered freeing MUTTS chained dog, Guard Dog, will be published in fall 2024.
McDonnell’s latest book is THE SUPER HERO’S JOURNEY, a graphic novel love letter to Marvel Comics and Jack Kirby. It was on 11 ‘best of’ lists for 2023.
THE ART OF NOTHING, an oeuvre of McDonnell’s work, comprehensively celebrates Patrick’s comic strip career. McDonnell is also the author of New York Times bestselling picture books, including THE GIFT OF NOTHING and the Caldecott Honor winning ME...JANE (a childhood biography of Dr. Jane Goodall). Both have been adapted as musicals for the Kennedy Center stage. In addition, he has collaborated with spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle on GUARDIANS OF BEING and with poet Daniel Ladinsky on DARLING I LOVE YOU. HEART TO HEART: A CONVERSATION ON LOVE AND HOPE FOR OUR PRECIOUS PLANET is a collaboration with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His Holiness has said “It is my hope that this book will open the eyes, minds and hearts of all people.”
In 2021, Ohio State University hosted Side Effects, a major exhibition of his large scale canvases. There will be a year-long retrospective of McDonnell’s comic strips, book illustrations and paintings at the San Diego Comic-Con Museum opening in January 2025.
McDonnell was a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States for 18 years as well as The Fund for Animals, and continues to serve as a director for The Charles M. Schulz Museum and D&R Greenway Land Trust.
You can sign up for the MUTTS daily email at mutts.com.
BREAKING THE CHAIN: THE GUARD DOG STORY, a collection of his newsworthy story centered freeing MUTTS chained dog, Guard Dog, will be published in fall 2024.
McDonnell’s latest book is THE SUPER HERO’S JOURNEY, a graphic novel love letter to Marvel Comics and Jack Kirby. It was on 11 ‘best of’ lists for 2023.
THE ART OF NOTHING, an oeuvre of McDonnell’s work, comprehensively celebrates Patrick’s comic strip career. McDonnell is also the author of New York Times bestselling picture books, including THE GIFT OF NOTHING and the Caldecott Honor winning ME...JANE (a childhood biography of Dr. Jane Goodall). Both have been adapted as musicals for the Kennedy Center stage. In addition, he has collaborated with spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle on GUARDIANS OF BEING and with poet Daniel Ladinsky on DARLING I LOVE YOU. HEART TO HEART: A CONVERSATION ON LOVE AND HOPE FOR OUR PRECIOUS PLANET is a collaboration with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His Holiness has said “It is my hope that this book will open the eyes, minds and hearts of all people.”
In 2021, Ohio State University hosted Side Effects, a major exhibition of his large scale canvases. There will be a year-long retrospective of McDonnell’s comic strips, book illustrations and paintings at the San Diego Comic-Con Museum opening in January 2025.
McDonnell was a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States for 18 years as well as The Fund for Animals, and continues to serve as a director for The Charles M. Schulz Museum and D&R Greenway Land Trust.
You can sign up for the MUTTS daily email at mutts.com.
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March 4, 2017
I love MUTTS!
January 6, 2015
Cat Crazy Star Rating Art: 4 Stars
Star Rating Story: 4 Stars
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First Impression: Juicy, but seems like a lot of themes, topics he’s used previously.
Love when mooch is the Sphynx. I can never get enough of those puns!!!! I like how McDonnell is using some graphics or animals that he obviously hasn’t drawn, it freshens it up a bit. The book is incredibly juicy and sweet. The shelter stories as always touch me, I love the classroom jokes. The book club jokes are ok, but I like the comic con strips a lot. Patrick McDonnell must be the sweetest person ever since he writes the juciest, sweetest strips around. I also loved when Earl and Mooch go trick or treating and the Thanksgiving stri[s. Those are always so sweet. Over all a good book, but not as good as previous collections.
Star Rating Story: 4 Stars
Self Purchase
First Impression: Juicy, but seems like a lot of themes, topics he’s used previously.
Love when mooch is the Sphynx. I can never get enough of those puns!!!! I like how McDonnell is using some graphics or animals that he obviously hasn’t drawn, it freshens it up a bit. The book is incredibly juicy and sweet. The shelter stories as always touch me, I love the classroom jokes. The book club jokes are ok, but I like the comic con strips a lot. Patrick McDonnell must be the sweetest person ever since he writes the juciest, sweetest strips around. I also loved when Earl and Mooch go trick or treating and the Thanksgiving stri[s. Those are always so sweet. Over all a good book, but not as good as previous collections.
November 14, 2014
Last year's collection of Mutts cartoons.
Not all of them are even trying to be funny. There are ones with quotations, and the Memorial Day one: a soldier down on one knee, his duffle behind him, as a dog charges for him.
There are stories in sequence, like Mooch's attempt to find two identical snowflakes or Mooch and Earl's annual attempt to hibernate (complicated this year by a Charley horse). Sequences on variations on a gag, like the booths on the boardwalk, or the Book Club gags on children's book titles. And pure stand-alones, like a retelling of Hey diddle diddle (with Mooch as the cat and Earl as the little dog) or the one where Earl asks Mooch if he believes in ghosts.
Some sweet, some funny. Worth reading.
Not all of them are even trying to be funny. There are ones with quotations, and the Memorial Day one: a soldier down on one knee, his duffle behind him, as a dog charges for him.
There are stories in sequence, like Mooch's attempt to find two identical snowflakes or Mooch and Earl's annual attempt to hibernate (complicated this year by a Charley horse). Sequences on variations on a gag, like the booths on the boardwalk, or the Book Club gags on children's book titles. And pure stand-alones, like a retelling of Hey diddle diddle (with Mooch as the cat and Earl as the little dog) or the one where Earl asks Mooch if he believes in ghosts.
Some sweet, some funny. Worth reading.
August 15, 2016
Waltz - or sleep - through a year of seasons with the critters of Mutts.
I find I usually either love the Mutts comics or I'm ambivalent about them. So this was a mixture of half and half. Half made me laugh and half I could take or leave (I also feel like he repeats himself a bit more than other comic artists). I also have mixed feelings about the cat's lisp in this comic series. Is it cute or does it just make reading unnecessarily complicated??? Oh well, the drawings themselves are always cute. I'm not sure why this is called Cat Crazy, it seemed an equal mix of cat, dog and squirrels.
I find I usually either love the Mutts comics or I'm ambivalent about them. So this was a mixture of half and half. Half made me laugh and half I could take or leave (I also feel like he repeats himself a bit more than other comic artists). I also have mixed feelings about the cat's lisp in this comic series. Is it cute or does it just make reading unnecessarily complicated??? Oh well, the drawings themselves are always cute. I'm not sure why this is called Cat Crazy, it seemed an equal mix of cat, dog and squirrels.
August 23, 2015
Love it....the Autumn season to X'mas!
October 26, 2016
Mooch. Earl. What's not to love?
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