Pete McDonnell

My professional career started at the age of 14 when I sold a cartoon of a little girl shaking her fist at a little boy, saying "If you weren't a boy, I'd flatten you!", to Gloria Steinem's new Ms. magazine. My career started in earnest after I spent a few years at two art schools -- as a cartoonist, illustrator, caricaturist, storyboard artist, I worked for whatever client was willing to pay me to create something for them. This included clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Nestle's, CRACKED magazine, National Geographic KIDS magazine, Capstone Publishing's Graphic History Library, the J. Walter Thompson ad agency, Colorforms, Lewis Galoob Toys, Sega/Activision, Benefit Cosmetics, to name just a handful of clients. Since 2016, I've been drawing an editorial cartoon for my hometown paper, The Petaluma Argus-Courier a weekly with a 20,000-strong circulation. In 2010 I began finding bookings for drawing caricatures at private events throughout the Bay Area, for corporate clients like Jackson Family Wineries, Medtronic, Twitter, Apple, Google and Facebook + weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, picnics and birthday parties. I live in Petaluma, a nice little town known for chicken ranches and dairies 35 miles north of San Francisco, with my painter/illustrator wife, Shannon Abbey, our son Jacob, and our dog Molly.