Ron Barrett is the author, along with Judy Barrett, of
the classic picture book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, one of
the New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books. It has sold over six
million copies globally and produced two motion pictures, a TV
series, two sequels, a cookbook and plastic toys in Happy
Meals.
Ron's work has appeared frequently in the New York Times since
1991, earning him two places in The Times Best Illustrations of the
Past 20 Years exhibit at the Society of Illustrators. His
illustrations have been exhibited twice at The Louvre's Musee des
Arts Decoratifs. He has been a consultant to the Children's TV
Workshop (Sesame Street) and Art Director of The National Lampoon
where he created its most popular comic strip, Politenessman.
Ron currently lives in New York City.
Jim Parry misspent his years as a Harvard undergraduate by
starting the Gargoyle, a humor magazine to compete with the
Lampoon.
Since then he has had a thriller, The Discovery (published by
HarperCollins), has co-written comedic screenplays sold to Columbia
and Universal and, most recently, has blogged on Huffington Post as
Ranting Political Poet.
Voted, and proud to be, Class Cynic of his high school graduating
class and maintaining a darkly comic view of humankind's prospects,
Jim is the founder of the Center for Impending Doom.
Jim currently lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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