![]() Moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, he met a group of underground cartoonists such as Peter Bagge and Kazimieras G. McDonnell had no idea what a Jack Russell was, so he had to look it up. When he saw it, he said, 'That's my cartoon come to life! Someone told him that he was drawing a Jack Russell Terrier. When he decided to start a comic strip, he wanted to focus on that little dog. McDonnell began a career as a magazine illustrator and would always find a way to incorporate the same little white dog somewhere in the background-a "generic cartoon dog," he says. During college he took some illustration classes, and on a lark he brought his student portfolio to the Village Voice newspaper, which gave him a job. ![]() ![]() The name "Patrick" was a name passed down trough multiple generations of McDonnells, and McDonnell's mother (at the suggestion of his father) agreed that he should bear the family name if he will be born on March 17, St Patrick's Day.Īfter graduating from Edison High School in 1974, McDonnell attended the School of Visual Arts on scholarship, graduating in 1978. ![]() His father is Irish and mother Italian-descendent. McDonnell was born in Edison, New Jersey, into a middle-class Irish-Italian family. ![]()
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