Jackie Urbanovic is an American New York Times best-selling[1] author and illustrator.
The majority of her work consists of children's picture books, including her self-authored Max the Duck series.
She studied writing under the mentorship of author Jane Resh Thomas in 1997 and after submitting her work to "Highlights" magazine, received her first trade illustration job on Spaghetti Eddie.
[5] Before she started her children's literature career, she contributed to several anthologies and comics series regarding LGBT themes and issues in the 1980s and 1990s.
[6] She is also credited as the Artist-In-Residence at the Molesworth Institute,[7] a source of library humor and information.