Nolen LeeNolen Lee is the creator of Punching Pandas(R) and is an independent artist based in the Seattle area and the author of The Panda is Fat and Panda is Still Fat. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon where he grew up drawing at a very young age. e earned a masters degree in civil engineering at Oregon State University but decided to pursue his first passion of becoming an artist. Since then he pursued a career as an independent illustrator and self-publishing. You may find more of Lee's pandas on punchingpandas.com and personal work on nolenlee.com Read More Read Less