Doug TenNapel

Doug TenNapel is a graphic novelist, game and TV developer (1993-present). Doug TenNapel is also a 6'8" artist who has worked across many mediums. His biggest success was when he created the video game Earthworm Jim which also became a Universal Studios animated series that aired on the Warner Brothers network. Earthworm Jim also became a line of action figures for Playmates Toys. His next TV series was Project GeeKer for CBS, animated at Sony Columbia Tristar. Doug began making graphic novels and his book Gear was developed at Nickelodeon to become the animated series Catscratch. Doug has written and drawn sixteen graphic novels and he has sold the intellectual property rights into Hollywood. Creature Tech was sold to Fox New Regency while Tommysaurus Rex was sold to Universal. Sam Raimi optioned Monster Zoo and Hugh Jackman brought Ghostopolis to Disney. Cardboard was his latest graphic novel to be purchased by Fox Animation to be directed by Chris Wedge, the guy behind Ice Age. But it was in 2013 when Dreamworks Animation asked him to pitch his version of VeggieTales for a new series to be made for Netflix. Doug was the show runner for seventy-eight, twenty-two minute shorts that were completed on time and on budget in just three year's time. Doug assembled a crew of talented people from around the country to pull off the impossible! He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee where he works in his quiet little studio writing and drawing graphic novels. Married for twenty-seven years, he and his wife have four awesome children. He enjoys fishing, reading philosophy, oil painting and designing his backyard to be an appropriate sanctuary for his collection of amphibians. He has raised over fifteen different species of amphibians. He makes his own beer, wakes up at four thirty every morning, records his inking sessions on Facebook Live and reads G.K Chesterton aloud with his friends. He is currently ready John Calivin's Institutes and a Batman graphic novel from the late nineties. Doug TenNapel graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University in 1988 and got his masters in Illustration from Cal State Fullerton in 2012.