Mark Penta is an author, caricaturist, and illustrator
whose work has appeared on billboards, magazines, book covers, and newspapers.
He has taught drawing and cartooning to kids and adults for over thirty years
at schools including Rhode Island School of Design and MassBay. Together with
his childhood friend Ted "T. M." Murphy, Mark co-created the series Totally
Weird Activity Books in support of their mission to get kids creating. Mark
lives in Massachusetts.