Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney didn’t grow up wanting to be a children’s author. His dream was to become a newspaper cartoonist, but he wasn’t able to get his comic strips syndicated.

In 1998 Jeff came up with the idea for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a story about a middle-school weakling named Greg Heffley. Jeff worked on his book for almost eight years before showing it to a publisher in New York.

Jeff describes his dot, "It's Greg's best friend Rowley's face in dot motif. "

Learn more about Wimpy Kid and Jeff Kinney on his website.

Jeff shows how to draw Greg Heffley: