Scott Shaw (born September 4, 1951) is an American cartoonist, animator, and historian of comics. Among Shaw's

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work is

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's ''

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'' (for

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and

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), '' Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew'' (for

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), and ''

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'' (for

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). He was also the first artist for

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' ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' comic book series.

Biography

Shaw began selling his artwork while still in his teens after choosing a career as a cartoonist. Throughout the 1970s, he contributed numerous stories to various

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. He also found work as an inker and then as a writer and penciller for a line of Hanna-Barbera comics which were originally published by Marvel Comics. Eventually, in 1978, he was hired to the Hanna-Barbera staff and became layout supervisor and character designer on

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's '' The New Fred and Barney Show'' (starring the Flintstones)

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series. Shaw's first published work appeared in the underground comic book ''Gory Stories Quarterly''. He and

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co-created ''

Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! ''Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!'' is a DC Comics series about a team of talking animals in fiction, talking animal superheroes called the Zoo Crew. The characters first appeared in a 16-page DC Comics insert previews, special insert ...

'' which first appeared in a special insert in '' The New Teen Titans'' #16 (Feb. 1982), followed by a series published from 1982 to 1983. Shaw both wrote and drew for

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early on in the series' run. Most recently, he has become involved in the long-running litigation between

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and the publishers over copyright and character ownership. Shaw's work in TV animation includes producing and directing ''

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'' for

, starring Martin Short, and ''

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'' for DiC, starring

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. He was also awarded four

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s for his work as a story director/storyboard artist on

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' ''

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'' (

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). Shaw has also worked on dozens of other cartoon series, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Duck Dodgers'', '' American Dragon: Jake Long'', ''

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'', '' Richie Rich'', '' Popeye and Son'', ''

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'', '' The Snorks'', ''

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'' and ''The Bungle Brothers'' segments of

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's ''

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'' and many others. Shaw also worked on

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's direct-to-DVD '' Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'' and '' Mulan 2''. For nearly 10 years, Shaw was the Senior Art Director of

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, where he co-wrote, co-directed, storyboarded and designed hundreds of animated TV commercials for

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Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. He also wrote and drew many print ads for the product, and has designed and illustrated many of the cereal's packages. Shaw has also designed lines of action figures of

and '' Simpsons'' characters for McFarlane Toys. He co-founded

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in 1970 alongside

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, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger,

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, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk and

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. In June 1977, Shaw was a charter member of CAPS – The Comic Art Professional Society and has served as past president of the organization. For 10 years, Shaw wrote a column on the

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website titled "Oddball Comics", where he selected comic and magazine issues noted for their strangeness and provided facts and commentary on them. It served as the basis for a digital slide show he has presented at comics conventions. Shaw was the initial artist photographed in his studio for '' The Artist Within: Portraits of Cartoonists, Comic Book Artists, Animators and Others'' by photographer Greg Preston, published by Dark Horse Books in 2007. Shaw is credited by Preston with suggesting the idea for the project.

Awards

Shaw was a recipient of the

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in 1980 from

References

External links

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