Aminder Dhaliwal

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Aminder Dhaliwal
Born (1988-12-05) December 5, 1988 (age 34)
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Notable works
Woman World
https://aminderdhaliwal.com/

Aminder Dhaliwal (born December 5, 1988) is a Canadian animator, storyboard artist, cartoonist, writer, and director. She is best known for her 2018 graphic novel Woman World.

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Dhaliwal was born to Punjabi parents in Wembley, England where she grew up until the age of 11. Her family then moved to Brampton, Ontario where she spent the rest of her adolescence. [1] She attended Sheridan College for animation and, in her final year, won a placement at Nickelodeon as a production intern in 2011. [2] She moved to Los Angeles and began working as a storyboard revisionist, and since 2012 has accumulated credits as a writer, director, storyboard artist and storyboard director on a number of television series, including The Fairly OddParents , Sanjay and Craig , Steven Universe , and Pinky Malinky . She is currently employed as a storyboard director at Cartoon Network, director at Disney Television Animation, and story artist at Sony Pictures Animation. [3]

Comics

Inspired by the Women's March in 2017, Dhaliwal began serializing Woman World on Instagram. [4] The science fiction comic tells the story of the development of an all-woman civilization after men become extinct as a result of a birth defect. After amassing over 100,000 followers on Instagram, the strip was reworked for print and collected as a graphic novel published by Drawn & Quarterly in September, 2018. [5]

The Instagram version of Woman World was nominated for a 2018 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic. [6] In 2019, the graphic novel was itself nominated for a Doug Wright Spotlight Award [7] and made the longlist of nominees for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. [8]

On March 27, 2019, it was announced that Dhaliwal was writing the pilot episode of an animated version of Woman World for Disney's Freeform cable network. Actress Felicia Day is to produce the proposed series. [9]

Animation

YearTitleNotes
2011Hide and SeekDirector, animated short
2012–2013 Robot and Monster Storyboard Revisionist
2013–2014 The Fairly OddParents Storyboard Revisionist, 13 episodes
2014–2016 Sanjay and Craig Writer, 18 episodes; Storyboard Director, 12 episodes
2019 Pinky Malinky Writer; Storyboard Artist, 8 episodes
2020 The Owl House Director, 6 episodes; Storyboard Artist, 5 episodes
2020 Close Enough Storyboard Director, 6 segments
2021 Centaurworld Writer, 2 episodes; Story, 10 episodes

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References

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  9. Lesley Goldberg (March 27, 2019). "Felicia Day, Emma Roberts to Produce Pair of Animated Comedies for Freeform". hollywoodreporter.com. The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 28, 2019. Woman World, meanwhile, is based on Aminder Dhaliwal's graphic novel of the same name. It playfully answers the question of what the world would look like if men became extinct and follows a community of women who lean on one another for survival as they search for love and identity in the ladies-only world. DIY queen Day (The Guild) will exec produce the pilot, which is written by Dhaliwal (Pinky Malinky).