Mark O'Hare

Mark O'Hare 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 and Hey Arnold!. 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 is currently a story artist with Illumination Entertainment, contributing to the films Despicable Me, The Lorax, and the upcoming sequel Despicable Me 2 .

Although accepted into the aeronautical engineering program at Purdue University, O'Hare shifted focus after his sophomore year to study graphic design, later getting acceptance into the character animation program at California Institute of the Arts.

While a student at Purdue University, he drew a strip called Art Gallery for the student newspaper, The Exponent. The comic ran from the autumn of 1987 to the spring of 1990.

O'Hare has been nominated four times for an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and won his first Emmy in 2007 for "Outstanding Animated Program" on Camp Lazlo and his second in 2008.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1992	Cool World	character designer
2004	Shrek 2	story artist
2007	Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo?	writer/director/supervising producer/storyboard artist
2010	Despicable Me	storyboard artist
2011	Hop	storyboard artist
2012	The Lorax	storyboard artist

External links

• Mark O'Hare at the Internet Movie Database