Douglas Richard TenNapel is an American animator, writer, cartoonist, video game designer, and comic book artist whose work has encompassed animated television, video games, and comic books.
18 Facts About Doug TenNapel
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Doug TenNapel is best known for creating Earthworm Jim, a character that spawned a video game series, animated series, and a toy line.
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Doug TenNapel is the creator of the animated television series Catscratch, which aired on Nickelodeon, and was itself a loose adaptation of TenNapel's comic book limited series Gear.
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Doug TenNapel was a consulting producer on the ABC series Push, Nevada with Ben Affleck.
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Doug TenNapel did the cover art for several of Five Iron Frenzy's albums, including a sculpture for their live album, Proof That the Youth Are Revolting.
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Doug TenNapel has created album covers and artwork for several Daniel Amos CDs, The 1999 tribute to the band, When Worlds Collide, the Neverhood soundtrack Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood and others.
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Flink, a graphic novel by Doug TenNapel, was released in late 2007 through Image Comics.
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Between January and October 2009, Doug TenNapel was a regular contributor to Breitbart News' "Big Hollywood" section, covering topics from movie reviews and the state of the comics entertainment industry to criticisms of the Obama administration and the environmental movement.
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Doug TenNapel has published an online superhero-genre-spoofing webcomic titled Ratfist.
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Doug TenNapel has used Kickstarter to produce a bound collection of his sketches, named Sketchbook Archives.
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In 2018, Doug TenNapel self-published the graphic novel Bigfoot Bill, launched as an Indiegogo, successfully funded and reaching various stretch goals.
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Doug TenNapel self-published the graphic novel Earthworm Jim: Launch the Cow, again on Indiegogo.
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Doug TenNapel was personal friends with Andrew Breitbart prior to the latter's death.
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Doug TenNapel has attracted criticism for his remarks on the LGBTQ community and its issues, including vocal opposition to same-sex marriage and intentionally misgendering a transgender journalist who criticized the Earthworm Jim video game.
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Doug TenNapel has dismissed this criticism, and has written that "transphobe is a made-up word used to slander conservative people of faith with a mental condition, and is only used by SJWs".
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Doug TenNapel was involved with Comicsgate, a campaign against forced diversity and progressivism in the superhero comics industry.
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Doug TenNapel supported Donald Trump's presidency and regularly posts his political opinions on various social media platforms.
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Doug TenNapel has a YouTube channel owned by his son Ed called Doug In Exile where he talks about current political events usually from a conservative perspective.