Meet the author

Dav Pilkey.

Writer · United States · b. 1966

Dav Pilkey: creator of Captain Underpants, Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club — the absurd, anarchic, dyslexia-friendly comic-book engines that have pulled more reluctant 6–11s into reading than almost any other living author.

Dav Pilkey is an American author-illustrator born in 1966, best known as the creator of Captain Underpants, Dog Man, and Cat Kid Comic Club, three of the bestselling children's-comic franchises of the last twenty-five years. Diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD as a child, Pilkey writes openly about being the disruptive kid at the back of the classroom, and his books carry that energy: gleefully silly, absurd, packed with potty humour, with deliberately wonky lettering and Flip-O-Rama action pages. The Dog Man series in particular has become one of the great reluctant-reader pipelines, written in a comic format that's accessible without ever being thin. A reliable hit for ages 6–11, especially for kids who insist they 'don't like reading'.