Mauri Kunnas

Mauri Tapio Kunnas (born 11 February 1950) is a Finnish cartoonist and children's author.

The hordes of clothed animals present in his books by the end of the 1970s led people to compare him to Richard Scarry, but as he became more popular and produced even more work the similarities lessened.

Kunnas' children's books usually feature some recurring background characters, like Herra Hakkarainen (Mr. Clutterbuck), a sleepwalking goat.

Aside of children's books, Kunnas has also drawn a rock and roll parody comic called Nyrok City for teenagers and adults.

He attributes a large part of his success to his good wife Tarja Kunnas who has worked for twenty years as his assistant doing the painting for her husband's drawings.