Dean Eric Yeagle (born 27 July 1947) is an American animator and cartoonist, born in the United States,
on bedetheque.com known for his character Mandy, which has appeared in the pages of ''
Playboy'' magazine.
Early life
As a young
Disney fan, Yeagle set his sights on becoming an
animator
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for Disney around the age of 10. During this time he often drew Disney characters, but later began to develop his own. After graduating from high school, Yeagle went to art school, leaving after a year.
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Career
Yeagle began his animation career in a small studio in Philadelphia with a summer job, giving him his first taste of the industry. He served four years in the Navy during the Vietnam era, and later worked for Jack Zander (who once animated Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM) in Zander's Animation Parlour, New York
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Seven years after starting at Zander's Animation Parlour, Yeagle began freelancing, working for most of the New York animation studios before starting his own, Caged Beagle Productions, in 1986 with Nancy Beiman. Caged Beagle produces TV commercials, CD-ROMs, sub-contracts or consults on features and character design.
Yeagle has worked as a designer, animator and director, and he was nominated by the ]National Cartoonist Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...
(NCS) for the 2003 Gag Award for his work in ''Playboy'' Magazine.Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on February 22, 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their e ...
, Broderbund, Dannon
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, Grey Advertising, Hanna-Barbera
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, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ImaginEngine, Kraft
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A merger with Heinz, arra ...
, Marvel Comics, Nestle, Playboy Enterprises, Procter & Gamble, Random House, Saatchi & Saatchi, Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros. and Western Publishing.
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External links
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Bellefree.com Gallery
American illustrators
American animators
American comics artists
1947 births
Living people
Playboy cartoonists
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