Ron Barrett is a cartoonist and artist best known for illustrating Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. It was first published in 1978 by the Simon & Schuster imprint Atheneum Books, followed by a 1982 trade paperback edition from sister company Aladdin Paperbacks...

. He is a graduate of the High School of Industrial Art, now the High School of Art and Design, in New York City. While still in high school he was an apprentice in the studio of Lucian Bernhard, the great German graphic designer. He also found a mentor in Ervine Metzl

Ervine Metzl

Ervine Metzl was an American graphic artist and illustrator best known for his posters and postage stamp designs.-Biography:Ervine Metzl was born in Chicago in 1899 to Ignatz and Bertha Metzl, Jewish immigrants from Bohemia....

, illustrator and President of the Society of Illustrators, who predicted that the young Mr. Barrett "...would either wind up in a mental institution or make a million dollars."

After early success as an art director at Young & Rubicam and Carl Ally, winning the Gold Medal of the Art Directors Club of New York, he left advertising to become an illustrator, author and puzzle

Puzzle

A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the desired solution...

 maker. He wrote The Nutty News and has illustrated many books, such as a series of children's books with Judi Barrett

Judi Barrett

Judi Barrett is an author of several picture books, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing...

, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. It was first published in 1978 by the Simon & Schuster imprint Atheneum Books, followed by a 1982 trade paperback edition from sister company Aladdin Paperbacks...

and Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing. He has also worked on several books for adults, including the best-selling O. J.'s Legal Pad with Henry Beard

Henry Beard

Henry N. Beard is an American humorist, one of the founders of the magazine National Lampoon and the author of several best-selling books.-Biography:...

 and John Boswell. In 2009 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs became an animated feature in 3D

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer-animated family comedy film, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, distributed by Columbia Pictures, and released on September 18, 2009. The film is loosely based on the children's book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett.The film...

, created by Sony Animation.

During the 1970s, Barrett had many comic strips in the National Lampoon "Funny Pages", of which the best remembered is perhaps "Politeness Man".

Books

• Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People, 1988 hardcover reissue, Aladdin (ISBN 0-689-71287-1) (Illustrator, with Judi Barrett
  Judi Barrett
  Judi Barrett is an author of several picture books, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing...
  
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• Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing, 1988, Aladdin (ISBN 0-689-70807-6) (Illustrator, with Judi Barrett)
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 1978, Aladdin (ISBN 0-689-30647-4) (Illustrator, with Judi Barrett)
• Old Macdonald had some flats, 1969, Longman group limited (ISBN 0-582-15018-3) (Illustrator, with Judith Barrett)
• The Nutty News, 2005 hardcover reissue, Knopf, (ISBN 0-375-92751-4)
• Pickles to Pittsburgh: The Sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 1997, Alladin (ISBN 0-689-80104-1) (Illustrator, with Judi Barrett)