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Steve Borst is an American television writer and producer. For his work on Mad , he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program in 2012. [1] He co-created Nickelodeon's Breadwinners with Gary "Doodles" DiRaffaele. His inspiration for the field of animation was CatDog [2] from the network that produced Hey Dude and Double Dare that he grew up watching, Nickelodeon. [3]
Steve Borst lived in New York in 2003 when he became a writer and later head writer for Nick Creative Advertising , [4] working on commercials, corporate presentations, live events, network branding, online commercials, on-air promos, print advertisements, promotional material, and public service announcements. Ever since he moved to Los Angeles in 2009, he has written episodes for Mad and Teen Titans Go! for Cartoon Network. He was head writer for Captain Cornelius Cartoon's Cartoon Lagoon in 2012. He co-created Breadwinners alongside Gary "Doodles" DiRaffaele from when they met at Burbank while working on Mad. [5]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 O 15.9994(3) | Writer |
| 2004 | Holy Crap, I Can Talk To Plants | Writer |
| 2004 | Gone | Writer |
| 2010 | Kids Choice Awards Orange Carpet 2010 | Writer |
| 2011 | FEARnet's Movie With More Brains | Writer |
| 2012 | Captain Cornelius Cartoon's Cartoon Lagoon | Head Writer |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2010–2013 | Mad | Writer |
| 2013 | The Looney Tunes Show | Writer: Story |
| 2013–2014; 2017–present | Teen Titans Go! | Writer |
| 2014–2016 | Breadwinners | Co-creator, story editor, writer, songwriter, executive producer, and voice director |
| 2021-2022 | Middlemost Post | Writer |
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Nick Cross is a Canadian animator, artist, cartoonist, director, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles, California. His works include The Waif of Persephone, Yellow Cake, Pig Farmer, and Black Sunrise, which he wrote, directed, animated and produced. He is friends with graphic novel artist Troy Little and they collaborated on the development of the animated series Angora Napkin. He directed the pilot for the Nickelodeon series Pig Goat Banana Cricket created by graphic novel creator Dave Cooper and alternative comics creator Johnny Ryan. He was the double Emmy winning art director for the Cartoon Network acclaimed miniseries Over the Garden Wall as well as the network's shorts development program. He was the supervising producer on the Cartoon Network and HBO Max series Tig n' Seek.
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