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Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story

English

By (author): Patrick McDonnell

Instant national bestseller! From the award-winning syndicated comic strip Mutts, the long-awaited Guard Dog story is now collected and presented in full color along with supplementary material, timed for the 30th anniversary

Guard Dog made his debut in the Mutts comic strip in 1995 and quickly became one of the strips most beloved characters. As a chained dog longing for freedom, hes played an important role in raising awareness about the cruelty of tethering and has inspired countless Mutts readers to become involved in animal welfare.

In October 2023, nearly three decades after his debut, Guard Dogs freedom story began to unfold in newspapers and online. After being abandoned by his owner, left alone and suffering, Guard Dog was discovered by his animal friends Mooch and Earl, and ultimately rescued by Doozy, a kindly neighborhood girl, and Ozzie, Earls guardian. After years of visiting Guard Dog to provide him with comfort and support, Doozy adopted himmarking the end of a long life of neglect and the beginning of one filled with love and safety.

The story line concludes with Guard Dog not only getting a new home but also a new nameSparkya nod to Patrick McDonnells greatest artistic inspiration, Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts.

As Guard Dog found his happy ending, McDonnell received requests from readers all over the world, many of whom had been invested in Guard Dogs plight for decades, hoping that the long-anticipated story would be made into a book. This collected volume answers the demands of those passionate readers.

Brought to life with Patrick McDonnells warm and intimate art, and featuring the complete story, now in color for the first time, Breaking the Chain is an emotionally resonant vignette whose grounding in the real-life animal neglect issues that affect millions of chained dogs worldwide will move both long-time Mutts fans and first-time readers. See more
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 24 Oct 2024

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 197 x 171mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781419779084

About Patrick McDonnell

Patrick McDonnell is the bestselling author illustrator playwright painter and creator of the comic strip Mutts which appears in more than 700 newspapers around the world. He has received numerous awards internationally including a Caldecott Honor and the Reuben the highest honor given by the National Cartoonists Society. He is the author of The Art of Nothing (Abrams ComicArts 2019) and The Super Heros Journey (Marvel Arts 2023). He lives in New Jersey.

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