Mark Tatulli

Mark Tatulli is an American cartoonist, writer, animator and television producer, known for his strips ''Liō'' and ''Heart of the City'' and for his work on the cable reality television series ''Trading Spaces'' and ''A Wedding Story'', for which he has won three Emmy Awards. His comics have appeared in hundreds of newspapers around the world.

Tatulli grew up in Willingboro Township, New Jersey and started drawing in his youth, publishing his first cartoons in the pages of the ''Burlington County Times''. A resident of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, Tatulli began drawing in elementary school, where his cartoons first appeared in the school's newspaper. After He became a syndicated cartoonist, a former teacher of his told him that "I can't believe you're still doing the same crap you were doing in junior high, and now getting paid for it."

In a 2014 interview with ''L'Idea'', Tatulli cited Berkeley Breathed 's ''Bloom County'', Bill Watterson's ''Calvin and Hobbes'', Garry Trudeau's ''Doonesbury'' and the ensemble at ''Mad'' magazine as being the cartoons that most influenced his career and style as a cartoonist. Provided by Wikipedia