Dog Man Unleashed

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of racism. 

David “Dav” Pilkey is an award-winning author known for his graphic narratives for younger readers. He is best known for the humorous graphic novels in his Captain Underpants and Dog Man series. He began writing early in life. Pilkey has both dyslexia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and when he was still in elementary school, he was often sent to work in the hallway as a punishment for disrupting class. He began to work on his Captain Underpants character in that hallway. In 1987, he won a competition for student writers. As part of the award, his first book, World War Won, was published.

From 1991 to 1993, Pilkey published the five books in his Dragon series. These books were later adapted into a Treehouse TV television series with 78 episodes that aired from 2004 to 2007. From 1994 to 1997, Pilkey published the Dumb Bunny series under the pen name Sue Denim. He published his first Captain Underpants book, Captain Underpants, in 1997. This book was so popular that Pilkey wrote 13 more books in the series, concluding it in 2015. While writing this series, Pilkey also authored the full-length graphic novels The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby (2002), The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future (2010), and Super Diaper Baby 2: Invasion of the Potty Snatchers (2011).