After watching the humor filled Shrek 2, curiosity began to envelop my mind – who created this character? I made a research in this what I discovered. The man behind the creation of Shrek was William Steig, an illustrator for The New Yorker who was known as the "King of Cartoons" for his award-winning, best-selling children's books including "Shrek," Steig was born Nov. 14, 1907, in New York, the son of a house painter and a seamstress. He began drawing cartoons for his high school ...