Michael Paraskevas

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Michael Paraskevas is an artist best known for creating Maggie and the Ferocious Beast. He is partnered with his mother Betty. The have authored 20 children's books and created three very popular animated series: Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, Marvin the Tap Dancing Horse, and The Kids from Room 402. They also produced and created The Tangerine Bear as a home video Christmas Special.

1 Television Series
2 Television Specials
3 Currently in development
4 Published Books
5 Other publications

[edit] Television Series

Maggie and the Ferocious Beast (Nickelodeon) - creators, writers, producers
Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse (PBS) - creators, producers
Kids from Room 402 (Fox) - creators, producers

[edit] Television Specials

The Tangerine Bear (ABC and Hyperion) - writer, creator, producers
The Cheap Show (Plum TV - currently in production) [1]

[edit] Currently in development

Jerolemon Street (Nelvana)
Red Moon Beach (Warner Brothers)
Junior Kroll (Paraskevas Studios)
Green Monkeys (Paramount Feature)
Which Way is UP (Hyperion)
Hoppy and Joe (Paraskevas Studios)
Leo Spats Ratcatcher (Paraskevas Studios)

[edit] Published Books

Junior Kroll
Junior Kroll and Company
The Ferocious Beast
The Big Scare
The Big Carrot
Nibbles O’Hare
Hoppy and Joe
On the Edge of the Sea
On the Day the Tall Ships Sailed
The Tangerine Bear
Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse
Junior Kroll, Esq.
Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402
The Strawberry Dog
Shamlanders
A very Kroll Christmas
Green Monkeys
LA TIMES
Jerolemon Street
Cecil Bunions

[edit] Other publications

Junior Kroll ran for 10 years every week in Dan’s Papers in East Hampton and New York. Junior Kroll also ran for five years in Hemisphere Magazine on United Airlines as a monthly feature.

Green Monkeys [2] is currently running in Dan’s Papers as a weekly comic strip, and is soon to be syndicated.

Michael’s illustration work has appeared in magazines all over the world, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Town and Country, Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Betty and Michael own and operate The Paraskevas Gallery in Westhampton Beach.