Pat Byrnes is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Monkeyhouse, which ran for three years. He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 2001, with an additional nomination for 2000, and nominations for their Gag Cartoon Award for 1999 and 2000.

Byrnes is married to the 41st Attorney General of Illinois

Illinois Attorney General

The Illinois Attorney General is the highest legal officer of the state of Illinois in the United States. Originally an appointed office, it is now an office filled by election through universal suffrage...

, Lisa Madigan

Lisa Madigan

Lisa Madigan has been the 41st Attorney General of the US state of Illinois since 2003, when she became the first female attorney general for Illinois...

, and they have two daughters, Rebecca and Lucy.

Byrnes is the author of the book What Would Satan Do? Cartoons About Right, Wrong, and Very, Very Wrong

A 1981 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Aerospace Studies, Byrnes got his start in cartooning at the campus newspaper The Observer, where he drew and co-authored a cartoon strip called "Pigeons" with Jim McClure, now a reporter and columnist with Irish American News in Chicago.

External links

• Official website
• NCS Awards, including a biography of Byrnes