Jump to content

Peter Hannan (producer)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mkrgolf (talk | contribs) at 17:40, 17 April 2016. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Peter Hannan (born August 13, 1954 in Newark, New York) is an American television producer, writer, singer-songwriter.

Hannan is the creator and executive producer of the Nickelodeon animated television series CatDog, overseeing all aspects (writing, storyboarding, character design, art direction, and post-production) of over one hundred 11-minute episodes and holiday specials. He also produced Fetch, the CatDog theatrical short subject and a ninety-minute television movie called CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery. He also wrote and sang the CatDog theme song.

Hannan is the author and illustrator of The Sillyville Saga: Sillyville or Bust, Escape from Camp Wannabarf, School After Dark: Lessons in Lunacy, and The Battle of Sillyville: Live Silly or Die!

As of 2008 Hannan is working on a variety of film, TV, game, and book projects, including a series of six middle-grade illustrated novels for HarperCollins called Super Goofballs, which features a staggering group of avenging lunatics:

  • Super Goofballs #1: That Stinking Feeling,
  • Super Goofballs #2: Goofballs in Paradise,
  • Super Goofballs #3: Super Underwear...and Beyond!,
  • Super Goofballs #4: Attack of the 50-Foot Alien Creep-oids!,
  • Super Goofballs #5: Doomed in Dreamland,
  • Super Goofballs #6: Battle of the Brain-sucking Robots.

As of 2008 he is working on a picture book and another series of middle-grade illustrated novels called Wally, King of Flurb — also for HarperCollins. He is working on a graphic novel and an animated television series. Hannan’s writing, illustrations, and single-panel cartoons (The Adventures of a Huge Mouth) have appeared in lots of newspapers and magazines and he has exhibited his paintings and drawings. He created the web series Really Freaking Embarrassing for Shut Up! Cartoons.

Television series

As of 2008 he lives in California with his wife and children.