Hitting the Snooze Button

Patrick McDonnell had already been working as an illustrator, cartoonist, and cartoon scholar when in 1994 he created his gentle feature Mutts about a cat, Mooch, and his dog friend, Earl, along with their respective owners. He created a world from the animals’ point of view, and at times uses the comic strip as a platform to deal with environmental and animal rights issues. Here, an angry bear, not quite ready to leave the comfort of the cave in which he has been hibernating, quiets Mooch.