Meet Mark Tatulli
Mark Tatulli is a cartoonist syndicated around the world, most widely recognized for his hit comic strips HEART OF THE CITY and LIO, which run in 400 newspapers across the globe.
LIO earned a nomination for Germany’s 2010 MAX AND MORITZ award and several nods for the National Cartoonists Society’s Best Comic Strip, a prize it won in 2009. Mark has likewise been nominated many times for the NCS Cartoonist of the Year. An animated LIO television series is in development.
Mark has since carried his cartooning and writing into middle grade books, creating the illustrated DESMOND PUCKET novel series for Andrews McMeel Publishing. He also wrote and illustrated two picture books, DAYDREAMING and THEY CAME, for Roaring Brook Press, a Macmillan company. He is currently at work on two graphic novels for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The first, SHORT AND SKINNY, a memoir of Mark’s life in the summer of 1977, arrives in bookstores in September 2018.
Beyond cartooning, Tatulli is an accomplished filmmaker and animator who has earned three Emmy awards for his earlier television work.
Mark makes his home in a Spielbergian development in New Jersey with his wife Donna and a few mischievous cats.