Donald Asmussen (October 31, 1962 – December 9, 2021)[1] was an American cartoonist working for the San Francisco Chronicle and Universal Press Syndicate.

[2][3] Early in his career, he published collages and celebrity caricatures in The New Yorker and drew a comic strip for Time called The Drawing Board;[4] he worked on animations for his webseries "Like, News" which aired on Mondo Media throughout 1999-2001 and on the 2001 film Monkeybone.

[7] In 2006, he published Dog vs. Cat: A Nation Divided, a satire of the 2004 presidential election.

[6][9] Asmussen was married to Kelly Zito, a former reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.

[3][10] He was diagnosed with cancer in the mid-2010s, which recurred in 2018, including a brain tumor[11] for which he underwent surgery.