Drew Panckeri is a picture book maker and cartoonist living in the States, just over the river from New York City. Largely self-taught, he worked as a designer for many years, while continuing to work as a cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, among other publications.
Drawing came naturally as a child, spending many days in school quietly concerned with the world inside a notebook, making friends laugh with MAD style parodies, or the many other distractions that would keep him in trouble and off the recess field.
Since 2015 Drew has published hundreds of single panel cartoons with the likes of The New Yorker, Mad Magazine, WIRED magazine, and many more.
When not drawing or writing, Drew can be found puttering around in the garden, cursing at the groundhog, knocking about in the kitchen, and generally leading a quiet life with good books.
Proust Questionnaire
To mark the occasion of his first children’s book, Debbie Bibo interviewed Drew for her Illustrated mini-Proust questionnaire.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
What is your greatest extravagance?
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
