JOHN GRANDITS is a poet, typographer, art director, designer & writer. He's written cartoons, articles, humor pieces, fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. Occasionally he's been published. In his previous life he was associated with a number of juvenile publishing ventures including Cricket, Muse and Click magazines, Crown Books for Children and Random House. He has also art directed adult trade and children's textbooks. For a short time, he was owner and publisher of Film and Video News magazine. He was written and designed books, book jackets & covers, brochures, advertisements, periodicals, record jackets, corporate logos (although he hated doing it), posers and, of course, poems. Oddly enough he didn't become funny until he was 55 years old. His ultimate goal is to design the perfectly illegible font and use it for the perfectly unreadable concrete poem.

"CRISIS! Dog and Cat find out the family is moving. Dog freaks out. He does NOT want to move. He goes through all the classic stages: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. Cat tries to get him to acceptance. But Cat is fine--really she is--or is she? Dog and Cat plow through the days until moving. They eat. They nap. They argue. They take care of their owners. But can they figure out how to stop this terrible move? Dog & Cat is told in a series of funny concrete (shape) poems and hilarious conversations"--