The book became an instant hit, with the online version receiving about 20 million views as of 2007. Abrams, Inc., to turn Diary of a Wimpy Kid into a print series.

In February 2006, during the New York Comic Con, Jeff signed a multi-book deal with publisher Harry N. He worked on his book for almost eight years, before showing it to a publisher in New York City, U.S.A The website made daily entries until June 2005. In May 2004, FunBrain and Jeff Kinney released an online version of the story, titled Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In January 1998, Kinney brought up the idea of a middle-school weakling named Greg Heffley, who writes illustrated stories about his personal life. In 2021 he was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa as an alumnus of the University of Maryland.ĭiary of a Wimpy Kid book series Kinney graduated from the University of Maryland in 1993, originally majoring in computer science but switching to criminal justice in order to have more time to work on his comic. It was in college that Kinney created a popular comic strip, Igdoof, which ran in the school student newspaper, The Diamondback.

He attended the University of Maryland, College Park in the early 1990s. He has an older brother and sister, and a younger brother.

Kinney attended Potomac Landing Elementary School and later Bishop McNamara High School, where he graduated in 1989. Jeff Kinney was born and raised in Fort Washington, Maryland. He also created the child-oriented website Poptropica. Urn:oclc:874780415 Republisher_date 20120703010116 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120627165020 Scanner Patrick Kinney (born February 19, 1971) is an American author and cartoonist, best known as the creator of the children's book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:37:21 Boxid IA179201 Boxid_2 CH129717 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

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