"Wal Footrot, is based on Murray Ball's cousin Arthur Waugh, who was a sheep shearer around the time of the strip's inception and went on to own a 2,100-hectare farm situated east of Pahiatua in the southeastern North Island of New Zealand. Ball cited different reasons for quitting the strip, including the death of his own dog, and his displeasure with the direction of New Zealand politics. Among the strip's fans were Peanuts creator Charles Schulz and Garfield creator Jim Davis. The characters are invariably known by their nicknames, such as Cooch, Pongo, Rangi, and Aunt Dolly. However, Aunt Dolly"
"over 40 published books. ""Footrot Flats"" inspired a stage musical, a theme-park and New Zealand's first feature-length animated film, """" (1986). ""Footrot Flats"" characters include Wal, Dog, Cooch, Cheeky Hobson, Aunt Dolly, Horse, Pongo, Rangi, Charlie, Major, Jess and the Murphy family of Irish and Hunk and Spit. ""Footrot Flats"" features several remarkable traits: its expansive created-universe, complete with ancillary characters, things and places; the fact that the characters slowly but perceptibly age and mature throughout the twenty-year run of the comic; and the gradual encroachment of political themes over the years (particularly environmentalism and gentle parodies of feminism). Ball"
"Stephen Hillenburg Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August21, 1961November26, 2018) was an American animator, cartoonist, and marine biology teacher. He was best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated television series ""SpongeBob SquarePants"" (1999), which he also directed, produced, and wrote. It has gone on to become the fifth longest-running American animated series. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma and raised in Anaheim, California, Hillenburg became fascinated with the ocean as a child and developed an interest in art. He started his professional career in 1984, instructing marine biology, at the Orange County Marine Institute, where he wrote ""The Intertidal Zone"", an informative"
"Scott Shaw (artist) Scott Shaw (often spelled Scott Shaw! ) is a United States cartoonist and animator, and historian of comics. Among Scott's comic-book work is Hanna-Barbera's ""The Flintstones"" (for Marvel Comics and Harvey Comics), ""Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew"" (for DC Comics), and ""Simpsons Comics"" (for Bongo Comics). He was also the first artist for Archie Comics' ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" comic book series. Scott Shaw began selling his artwork while still in his teens after choosing a career as a cartoonist. Throughout the 1970s he contributed numerous stories to various underground comix. He also found work as"
"Aaron Springer Aaron Paul Springer (born September 5, 1973) is an American cartoonist and animator. He is the creator of the Disney XD original series ""Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer"", in which he voices the main character Billy Dilley. He is best known for his work on the Nickelodeon animated series ""SpongeBob SquarePants"", for which he contributed to as a writer and storyboard artist for seven seasons. Springer has collaborated with various animation veterans such as Genndy Tartakovsky, Paul Rudish, Rumen Petkov, Stephen Hillenburg and John Kricfalusi. Besides ""Billy Dilley"", he has created numerous pilots for Cartoon Network and Adult"
"Syndicate, Platt wrote and drew the comic strip ""Mr. and Mrs.""(originally by Clare Briggs) from 1947–1963, and ""The Duke and the Duchess"" from 1950–1954. Additionally, he drew theatrical caricatures for such newspapers and magazines as ""The Village Voice"" and the ""Los Angeles Times"". In the 1960s, Platt scripted TV animation, including for the Hanna-Barbera series ""The Jetsons"", ""The Flintstones"", ""Yogi Bear"", ""Top Cat"" and ""Jonny Quest"" (for which at one point he held the title of ""story director""), as well as for Hal Seeger Productions' ""Milton the Monster"". Plat began writing children's books and young-adult mysteries in 1961. He eventually"
"pictures such as ""Fritz The Cat"", ""Lord of the Rings"", and ""Wizards"". Martin Taras Martin B. Taras (9 August 1914 – 2 November 1994) was an American cartoonist who mostly worked at Famous Studios, the New York-based animation division of Paramount Pictures. Known for the creation of Baby Huey, Taras also animated films and drew comic books featuring characters such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, Rags Rabbit, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Herman and Katnip, and Buzzy the Funny Crow. Taras also served as animator and/or designer for television programs such as ""Batfink"", ""Spider-Man"" (The"
"he has presented at comics conventions. Scott Shaw (artist) Scott Shaw (often spelled Scott Shaw! ) is a United States cartoonist and animator, and historian of comics. Among Scott's comic-book work is Hanna-Barbera's ""The Flintstones"" (for Marvel Comics and Harvey Comics), ""Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew"" (for DC Comics), and ""Simpsons Comics"" (for Bongo Comics). He was also the first artist for Archie Comics' ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" comic book series. Scott Shaw began selling his artwork while still in his teens after choosing a career as a cartoonist. Throughout the 1970s he contributed numerous stories to various underground"
"awarded personally (""In the Heights"", ""Avenue Q"", ""Rent""). Allan Burns ('53) was a 6-time Emmy Award-winning writer and creator, known for such shows as ""The Munsters"", ""Get Smart"", ""Mary Tyler Moore Show"", and ""Rocky and Bullwinkle"". Ken Peterson ('26) animated ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"", and ""Sleeping Beauty"". John Kneubuhl ('38), a Samoan royal, was a writer on ""Wild, Wild, West"", """", ""Hawaii Five-O"", ""Gunsmoke"", ""Mannix"", and 40 other shows. Bruce Broughton ('62) is a film composer (""Silverado"", ""Tombstone"", ""The Rescuers Down Under"") and a 10-time Emmy-winner for TV themes (""JAG"", ""Tiny Toon Adventures"")."
"Stuart Tresilian Cecil Stuart Hazell Tresilian (1891-1974) was a British artist and illustrator, best known for his illustrations of children's books, including Rudyard Kipling's ""Animal Stories"" and ""All the Mowgli Stories"", and Enid Blyton's Adventure Series. He was born in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, on 12 July 1891, and grew up in Islington, London, where his father worked as a colliery clerk. He became a professional vocalist, and later served in the Army Audit Department. He studied art at Regent Street Polytechnic, where he became a pupil teacher, and gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art before the First"
"William Steig William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books ""Sylvester and the Magic Pebble"", ""Abel's Island"", and ""Doctor De Soto"", he was also the creator of ""Shrek!"", which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988. Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up"
"Martin Taras Martin B. Taras (9 August 1914 – 2 November 1994) was an American cartoonist who mostly worked at Famous Studios, the New York-based animation division of Paramount Pictures. Known for the creation of Baby Huey, Taras also animated films and drew comic books featuring characters such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, Rags Rabbit, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Herman and Katnip, and Buzzy the Funny Crow. Taras also served as animator and/or designer for television programs such as ""Batfink"", ""Spider-Man"" (The 1967 series), ""Josie and the Pussycats"", ""Super Friends""; and for theatrical motion"
"the Winsor McCay Award at the 45th Annie Awards, and a special recognition at the 45th Daytime Emmy Awards ""for his contribution and impact made in the animation field and within the broadcast industry."" Stephen Hillenburg Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August21, 1961November26, 2018) was an American animator, cartoonist, and marine biology teacher. He was best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated television series ""SpongeBob SquarePants"" (1999), which he also directed, produced, and wrote. It has gone on to become the fifth longest-running American animated series. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma and raised in Anaheim, California, Hillenburg became fascinated with the"
"B.C. (comic strip) B.C. is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Johnny Hart. Set in prehistoric times, it features a group of cavemen and anthropomorphic animals from various geologic eras. ""B.C."" made its newspaper debut on February 17, 1958, and was among the longest-running strips still written and drawn by its original creator when Hart died at his drawing board in Nineveh, New York, on April 7, 2007. Now produced by Mason Mastroianni, ""B.C."" is syndicated by Creators Syndicate. ""B.C."" was initially rejected by a number of syndicates until the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate accepted it, launching"
"Ian Jones-Quartey Ian Jones-Quartey (born June 18, 1984) is an American writer, storyboard artist, animator and voice actor. He is best known for his webcomic ""RPG World"" and his work on ""Steven Universe"", ""Adventure Time"", and ""Bravest Warriors"". He is the creator of the animated series ""OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes"", based on his Cartoon Network pilot ""Lakewood Plaza Turbo"" which premiered on the network in 2017. Jones-Quartey was born on June 18, 1984, in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, but was raised in Columbia, Maryland. He attended Long Reach High School and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Jones-Quartey"
"Dudley D. Watkins Dudley Dexter Watkins (27 February 1907 – 20 August 1969) was an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his characters ""Oor Wullie"" and ""The Broons""; comic strips featuring them have appeared in Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post since 1936, along with annual compilations. Watkins also illustrated for comics such as ""The Beano"", ""The Dandy"", ""The Beezer"" and ""Topper"", and provided illustrations for Christian stories. Watkins was born in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, although the family moved to Nottingham while he was still a baby. His father was a lithographic print artist who noted the boy's"
"comic book division. He also wrote a number of variety shows and specials, and he began writing for animated cartoon shows, including ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo"", ""The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show"", ""Thundarr the Barbarian"", ""The ABC Weekend Special"", ""Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper"", ""Richie Rich"", ""The Wuzzles"", and ""Dungeons & Dragons"". He is most noted in animation for his work on ""Garfield and Friends"", a seven-season series for which Evanier wrote or co-wrote nearly every episode and acted as voice recording director. Since 2008, Evanier has been the co-writer and voice director of ""The Garfield Show"", which went on"
"C. H. Greenblatt C. H. (Carl Harvey) Greenblatt (born June 17, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor. He has worked on the Nickelodeon series ""SpongeBob SquarePants"", and on the Cartoon Network series ""The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy"" and ""Evil Con Carne"". He is best known as the creator of ""Chowder"" for Cartoon Network and ""Harvey Beaks"" for Nickelodeon. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in advertising. He got his first job in the animation industry working as an additional storyboard artist for ""SpongeBob SquarePants"". In November 2007, Greenblatt"
"Garry Trudeau Garretson Beekman ""Garry"" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the ""Doonesbury"" comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series ""Alpha House"". Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau Jr. He is the great-grandson of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York. Edward was succeeded by his son Francis and grandson Francis Jr. The latter founded the Trudeau Institute at"
"Mark O'Hare Mark O'Hare (born July 18, 1968) is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip ""Citizen Dog"". O'Hare is well known for his work on animated television shows as a writer and storyboard artist for ""Rocko's Modern Life"", ""SpongeBob SquarePants"", ""Dexter's Laboratory"", ""The Powerpuff Girls"", ""Hey Arnold!"", ""The Angry Beavers"", ""The Mighty B!"" and ""Chowder"". He performed storyboard work on ""The Ren and Stimpy Show""'. Throughout the run of the series, O'Hare served as the creative director and supervising producer on ""Camp Lazlo"". He's currently a storyboard artist at Illumination Entertainment. Although accepted into the aeronautical engineering program"
"artist. Stanley and Clara both attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Mark Alan Stamaty Mark Alan Stamaty is an American cartoonist and children's writer and illustrator. During the 1980s and 1990s, Stamaty's work appeared regularly in the ""Village Voice"". He is the creator of the long-running comic strip ""Washingtoon"", as well as the earlier comic strip ""MacDoodle Street"", and the online strip ""Doodlennium"" for ""Slate"" magazineHe is also a spot illustrator for ""Slate"". He produced a monthly comic strip in the ""New York Times Book Review"" called ""Boox"" in 2001–2004 that made fun of publishing trends. Stamaty has published several"
"Steig died of natural causes in Boston on October 3, 2003, aged 95. ""Shrek 2"", which was released seven months after his death, was dedicated to his memory. From this time, Steig primarily created children's picture books. William Steig William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books ""Sylvester and the Magic Pebble"", ""Abel's Island"", and ""Doctor De Soto"", he was also the creator of ""Shrek!"", which inspired the film series of the same name. He was"
"produced Saturday morning cartoons. Harris personally created several of Total Television's iconic cartoon characters, most famously Underdog, the dog superhero and star of the 1960s animated series, ""Underdog"". Harris' also designed other notable creations, including King Leonardo, Klondike Kat and Tennessee Tuxedo. Additionally, Harris drew the storyboards for Total Television's animated shows, while Stover and Biggers, a Dancer Fitzgerald Sample account manager, wrote penned the scripts for the episodes. Harris returned to the advertising industry after Total Television folded in 1969. He also penned and illustrated several children's books, including ""The Belly Book."" Harris died at his home in Stamford,"
"on ""The Cartoon Cartoon Show"" (2005–2008) and ""Cartoon Planet"" (2012–2014). Cartoon Cartoons first appeared as shorts on animation showcase series ""What a Cartoon!"" in 1995, under the name of ""World Premiere Toons"". The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios under the direction of Fred Seibert. Seibert had been a guiding force for Nickelodeon (having overseen the creation of Nicktoons shortly prior to his departure) prior to joining Hanna-Barbera and would establish Frederator Studios years later. Through ""What a Cartoon!"", Cartoon Network was able to assess the potential of certain shorts to serve as pilots for spin-off series"
"Don Bluth Donald Virgil Bluth (; born September 13, 1937) is an American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer and animation instructor. He is known for directing animated films, such as ""The Secret of NIMH"" (1982), ""An American Tail"" (1986), ""The Land Before Time"" (1988), ""All Dogs Go to Heaven"" (1989) and ""Anastasia"" (1997), and for his involvement in the LaserDisc game ""Dragon's Lair"" (1983). He is also known for competing with former employer Walt Disney Productions during the years leading up to the films that would make up the Disney Renaissance. He is the older"
"Ken H. Harrison Ken H. Harrison (born 1940) is a British comic book.cartoon artist at DC Thomson. He drew Robbie Rebel, Big Brad Wolf and Lord Snooty for ""The Beano"", The Hoot link title Squad for ""Hoot"" (later reprinted as The Beano's The Riot Squad), The Broons and Oor Wullie for ""The Sunday Post"", Skookum Skool, Spookum Skool and The Snookums for ""Buzz"" and Cracker comics. He drew Desperate Dan for ""The Dandy"" between 1983 and 2007 until ""The Dandy"" was revamped. He drew the front cover illustration for ""Classics from the Comics"". Until 2012 he drew Minnie the Minx"
"Gilbert Shelton Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters ""The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"", ""Fat Freddy's Cat"", and ""Wonder Wart-Hog"". Shelton was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston. He attended Washington and Lee University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his bachelor's degree in the social sciences in 1961. His early cartoons were published in the University of Texas' humor magazine ""The Texas Ranger"". Directly after"
"from comic books, (""Superman"", ""Aquaman"", ""Spider-Man"", ""The Fantastic Four""), and others original (""Space Ghost"", ""The Herculoids"", ""Birdman and the Galaxy Trio"", etc.) Also included were parodies of the superhero genre (""Underdog"", ""The Super Six"", and ""George of the Jungle"", among others.) Another development was the popular music-based cartoon, featuring both real-life groups (""The Beatles"", ""The Jackson 5ive"", and ""The Osmonds"") as well as anonymous studio musicians (""The Archies"", ""Josie and the Pussycats""). Live-action series continued to some extent with Sid and Marty Krofft's ""H.R. Pufnstuf"" and ""Sigmund and the Sea Monsters"", Hanna-Barbera's ""The Banana Splits"", Stan Burns and Mike Marmer's"
"Nickelodeon's ""The Ren and Stimpy Show""), Bruce W. Timm (producer of Warner Bros. """"), Jim Reardon (writer for Warner Bros. ""Tiny Toon Adventures"" and Disney/Pixar's ""WALL-E"" and director for Fox's ""The Simpsons""), Tom Minton (writer and producer for many Warner Bros. television cartoons, including ""Tiny Toons"", ""Animaniacs"", ""The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries"", ""Baby Looney Tunes"" and ""Duck Dodgers""), Lynne Naylor (co-founder of Spümcø, character designer for ""Batman: The Animated Series"" and storyboard artist for Cartoon Network's ""The Powerpuff Girls"" and ""Cow and Chicken"" among other works), and Rich Moore (animation director for Fox/Comedy Central's ""Futurama"", director for ""The Simpsons"" and"
"Alan Burnett Alan Burnett (; born February 17, 1950) is an American television writer-producer particularly associated with Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera Productions, DC Comics and Walt Disney television animation. He has had a hand in virtually every DC animated project since the waning years of the ""Super Friends"". Burnett's contributions for Disney were largely a part of the 1990s ""Disney Afternoon"", where he was attached to the ""Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears"" and various projects set in the Scrooge McDuck universe. Because of his primary focus on televised animation, he has occasionally been involved in film projects related to"
"Frank Stack Frank Huntington Stack (born October 31, 1937 in Houston, Texas) is an American underground cartoonist and fine artist. Working under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for his work while living in the Bible Belt, Stack published what is considered by many to be the first underground comic, ""The Adventures of Jesus"", in 1962. Stack's main artistic influences were Gustave Doré, Roy Crane, and V. T. Hamlin. He is widely known as a printmaker, specializing in etchings and lithographs, and his sketchy comics style evokes Stack's background as an etcher. (His technique of creating etchings on-site was"
"Grange Calveley Grange Calveley (born May 6, 1943) is a British writer and artist who is best known as the creator of the BBC's animated television series ""Roobarb"" (1974) and ""Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk"" (1977). Calveley also wrote and made character drawings for the 2005 revival series, ""Roobarb and Custard Too"". The series was commissioned by UK's Channel FIVE and directed by Jason Tammenagi. Grange Calveley was born 6 May 1943 in Cheshire, England. His father was with the Scots Guards and was killed at Arezzo in 1944. After Art College, Calveley worked for a number of advertising agencies"
"Bob Godfrey Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE (27 May 1921 – 21 February 2013), known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series ""Roobarb"" (1974–75), ""Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk"" (1976-77) and ""Henry's Cat"" (1983–95) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s. However, he also produced a BAFTA and Academy award-winning short film ""Great"" (1975), a tongue-in-cheek biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Further Academy Awards nominations received were for ""Kama Sutra Rides Again"" (1971), ""Dream Doll"" (1980),"