Harry Bliss

Harry Bliss is an American cartoonist and illustrator.

Bliss grew up in New York State in an artistic family. There are eleven working visual artists in his immediate and extended family. Bliss studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and illustration at the University of the Arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts and later, at Syracuse University an M.A.

Bliss has illustrated many books, produced hundreds of cartoons and 19 covers for The New Yorker. His first book for children, A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech was a New York Times bestseller, as was Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Fly (by Doreen Cronin). Bliss' self-titled cartoon collection Death by Laughter with an introduction by Christopher Guest was published in 2008. In 2008 Bliss published Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken (Harper Collins) by Kate DiCamillo.

Bliss has a syndicated single-panel comic titled Bliss. Bliss is syndicated through Tribune Media Services and appears in over 70 newspapers in the United States, Canada and Japan.