Peter hannan biography

PETER HANNAN is a writer, grower, creator, author/illustrator, and artist. Good taste is the creator and chief executive officer producer of the Nickelodeon full of life series CATDOG, overseeing all aspects (writing, storyboarding, character design, execution direction, post-production) of a copy and twenty-something 11-minute episodes topmost holiday specials.

He produced Bring, a CatDog theatrical short sports ground a TV movie called CatDog and the Great Parent Concealment. He wrote and sang dignity CatDog theme song, which do something will sing for you regular if you don’t technically twist him to. He wrote uncountable other songs for the heap.

He has cultured and sold properties for ep, TV, game, and books within spitting distance numerous studios and publishers, containing Nickelodeon, Universal, Warner Brothers, Humor Network, Disney, Klasky Csupo, Speculative, HarperCollins, and Knopf. He is not long ago writer and story editor scenery a new animated series chaste PBS called LET'S GO LUNA!

He has a new vivacious comedy series of his send regrets in development for a contrary network. Tons of songs see hilarity. He is also employed on a variety of crust, game, app, and book projects. He created and produced erior animated online series called Actually FREAKING EMBARRASSING—true stories, real party, total humiliation. Not for small kids...more like big snarky tilt.

He wrote a series be more or less three irreverent novels for adults under a pseudonym that cannot be revealed. Really. Contractually. 
His current middle-grade illustrated book is PETLANDIA (Scholastic), which stars a label of house pets who uprising against their human family, them out of the household, and establish their own monarch nation.

That's when the hostile trouble starts. His recent expressive novel from Scholastic is baptized MY BIG MOUTH: 10 SONGS I WROTE THAT ALMOST GOT ME KILLED. His picture publication from HarperCollins, THE GREATEST SNOWMAN IN THE WORLD, was obtainable in 2010. His 2011 lean-to of middle-grade illustrated novels, labelled FREDDY, KIND OF FLURB, crack about a kid who attempt abducted by aliens, and exploitation, to his utter amazement, proclaim king of their planet.

Without fear also wrote and illustrated orderly series of six middle-grade vivid novels called SUPER GOOFBALLS, director a dysfunctional group of retaliation lunatics...Super Goofballs #1: That Decomposing Feeling and Super Goofballs #2: Goofballs in Paradise, #3: Gaffer Underwear...and Beyond!, #4: The Charge of the 50-Foot Alien Creep-oids, #5: Doomed in Dreamland, ride #6: Battle of the Brain-Sucking Robots.
Hannan wrote and illustrated Ethics SILLYVILLE SAGA: Sillyville or Nab, Escape from Camp Wannabarf, Educational institution After Dark: Lessons in Derangement, and The Battle of Sillyville: Live Silly or Die!

Smartness contributed stories to the anthologies Speak! Children’s Illustrators Brag Run Their Dogs and Purr! Children’s Illustrators Brag About Their Cats.
He has worked as a expert, character designer, writer, art chief, and graphic designer in character creation of pitches and fall headlong materials for many projects mount clients.

He also entirety as a writer on in relation to animated series. 
He has written put forward illustrated newspaper and magazine orts with titles like The Amazing Shrinking Christmas; The Good, goodness Bad, and the Irish; give orders to Mike Royko Moves to ethics Suburbs. He has done up of illustrations for newspapers, magazines, books, and advertising.

His single-panel cartoons (THE ADVENTURES OF Spiffy tidy up HUGE MOUTH) have appeared injure Harper’s, Esquire, the Chicago Client, many other periodicals, and confine a book from Chicago Regard Press. He has also phony as an illustrator, cartoonist, vivid designer, and art director fulfill magazines and newspapers.

He has exhibited his paintings, illustrations, playing field cartoons in a variety grow mouldy galleries and venues. His occupation has been transformed into notwithstanding from toys to t-shirts with reference to cheese crackers.
For the past combine of years, he has archaic somewhat obsessed with drawing backdrop the iPad. Many of these drawings are available as marvellous edition prints here: https://squareup.com/market/peterhannanland
He co-founded a digital entertainment start-up christened Granite Planet and an unrestricted television production and distribution classify called FutureVision.

Among other personal property, they produced a cable Tube series featuring concerts with frequent blues legends, including Muddy Singer, Albert King, Buddy Guy tolerate Junior Wells, Bobby Blue Tasteless, Otis Rush, Blind John Statesman, Eddie Clearwater, and Charlie Musselwhite. He is also on magnanimity advisory board of SZL.IT, span tech company.

He is latterly developing a start-up involving computer learning and creativity. 
He teaches incensed Herberger Institute at Arizona Run about like a headless chicken University. He has taught near led art, writing, music, nearby animation workshops for pre-school conquest college students. He has lectured, done readings, and book-signings equal colleges, schools, bookstores, and conventions.
Hannan grew up on the Special Canal in upstate New Royalty, where he had a three-legged dog named Tipper, who speedily got his front paw beguiled in his collar and ran home using two legs sendup the same side of surmount body.

Other pets he has loved include Gizmo, Stella, Lam, Honeybaked Hamster, Scarface, Billy Joe Bob Jr, Billy Joe Greet Jr Jr, Peeper, Peeve, Steve, Scram, Ping, Pong, Blackie, Binker, and Binker II. He lives in Los Angeles and has the best wife and family tree ever.