About the Book

A companion to “Kitty’s Laws: Murphy’s Laws for Cat Owners”, cartoonist Daniel Roberts provides a satirical look at owning a dog with “Canine’s Laws: Murphy’s Laws for Dog Owners”. Each “law for owning a dog” is written in a “tongue-and-cheek” manner and illustrated with a cartoon drawing. It’s “dog-gone” fun entertainment for dog lovers everywhere who are looking for a laugh.

About the Author

            A graphic artist and cartoonist, Daniel Roberts is a graduate of commercial art from Iowa Wesleyan College and a graduate of the Art Instruction School, which he participated in during his junior and senior years of high school.

            A life-long resident of the state of Iowa, he has been drawing since he tried copying the Peanuts comic strip characters at the age of 4. This introduced him to his first taste of comic strip drawing. Since graduating college, he has had his cartoons published in several magazines, including “Woman’s World”, "The Saturday Evening Post", “Rural Heritage” and in King Features Syndicate''s "The New Breed" comic strip. Roberts has had a number of political cartoons and a continuing comic strip named "Haley''s Comment" appear in the publication "Toons". Since 2000, two comic strip syndicates, Beacon Entertainment Syndicate of TN and Artist Market Syndicate, have been promoting two on-going strips to newspapers.

            He has written and illustrated a cartoon book called "The Funny Side of Hunting & Fishing", “Kitty’s Laws: Murphy’s Laws for Cat Owners” and “Canine’s Laws: Murphy’s Laws for Dog Owners”.  His children''s picture books include  “Chicken in the Hen House: A Counting Book”, “Harrison and his Robot Dinosaur”, “The Places I’ve been and the Things I’ve seen” and "The Great Dino-Circus". He has also illustrated the children’s books “Do Fish Sneeze?” (by published poet Jean Tweed) and "Little Mother Goose".

           His work has appeared in several shows. A one-artist show featuring his artwork appeared at “Art Gallery on Main” during the summer of 2003.

For more information about Daniel Roberts’ other books, please visit:

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