MacNelly, Jeff

Jeff MacNelly, in full Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly, (born Sept. 17, 1948, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 8, 2000, Baltimore, Md.), American cartoonist best known for his widely syndicated comic strip Shoe (1977), in which all the characters were birds. MacNelly attended the University of North Carolina, but he dropped out after four years. He worked for the Richmond News Leader from 1970 to 1982 and for the Chicago Tribune thereafter. In 1972 he became the youngest person ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning; he won it again in 1978 and 1985.