Carter Goodrich has illustrated sixteen New Yorker covers and was the lead character designer for Despicable Me. He has designed characters for many other beloved animated films, including Finding Nemo; Monsters, Inc.; Open Season, and Ratatouille, for which he won the International Animated Film Society's Annie Award for character design. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, he has twice been awarded the gold medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York. Carter lives in Los Angeles, California. [adapted from Say Hello to Zorro! (2011)]
