Peter Hannan
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- For the Canadian composer and performer, see Peter Hannan (composer).
Peter Hannan (born August 13, 1954) is a 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 a hundred and twenty-something 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.
As of 2008 he lives in California with his wife and children.
