Pilkey — who says he came up with the Captain Underpants and Dog Man characters when he was in elementary school — said he’s energized by seeing kids who are inspired by his work to create ...

During these drawing sessions, Pikley thought of both of his most famous characters — Dog Man and Captain Underpants. "So this frustrating time for me ended up being kind of a happy time for me ...

(CNN) -- Here's what you need to know about Captain Underpants, in brief: He's a pudgy comic superhero in a red cape and white undies, who flies through the pages of a series of children's books ...

The plot pulls from four installments of Dav Pilkey’s 12-book series about the adventures of 4th-grade pranksters George Beard and Harold Hutchins and their invented superhero, Captain Underp… ...

Dav Pilkey will entertain 1,600 people as his “Howling With Laughter” tour stops at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds on Friday night.

Back then, Pilkey got into so much trouble, his teacher moved his desk to the hall. That’s when Pilkey began making up stories about and drawing two funny characters, Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

That’s a much happier outcome than forcing the Captain Underpants characters to adhere to the default CG human designs of past DreamWorks titles like Bee Movie and Monsters vs. Aliens.

The advertent creator of all these characters is Dav Pilkey, ... "It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants," said Pilkey. "Soon I was making my own comic books about him." ...

“Captain Underpants” achieves a convincingly hand-drawn look in the characters’ chunky oval bodies, in the buildings they inhabit and in the backgrounds against which the action is set.