Ian Carney is a

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. Born in Liverpool, Merseyside on 21 August 1962, Carney began writing comics in the 80s for Fleetway Editions in the UK and

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and

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in the US. He is probably best known in the comics world as co-creator with

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of a humorous anthology comic called SugarBuzz published by

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, featuring a cast of over fifty characters. The most popular being Pants Ant, who featured in an animated cartoon for

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; and the Where's It At, Sugar Kat? series which was also optioned for film and TV projects by

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inc. He has also created ''Axis Mundi'' with artist Garry Marshall, ''Randy The Skeleton'' with artist Aidan Potts and ''A Bagful of Anteaters'' with artist Jonathan Edwards. Carney now works primarily as an animation writer in the UK for children's cartoon series. An episode of

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written by Ian Carney in 2010 was the winner of the US tv broadcasting award, the Emmy. He has written scripts for shows in the UK including

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Bob The Builder ''Bob the Builder'' is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series follows the adventures of Bob, a building contractor, specialising in masonry, along with ...

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, Noddy, Tracy Beaker, Metalheads,

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, Emu,

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, Noddy, Combos Ninos, Nina and the Neurons, Tommy Zoom,

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and

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. He was co-creator and head writer on the European cartoon series Commander Clark and head writer of

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Comics

* ''Randy the Skeleton'' (1996) * ''Sugar Buzz!'' #1-9 (1998-) * ''The Skeleton Key/Sugar Kat special'' (1998) * ''Axis Mundi'' (Slab-O-Concrete, 1999) * ''A Bagful of Anteaters'' (2003) * ''Where's it at Sugar Kat: The Thin Of the Land'' (2003) * ''SugarBuzz! Your ticket to happiness'' (2004)

References

* Kane, Will (2003) interview in ''Where's it at Sugar Kat: The Thin Of the Land'', 98-103 SLG Publishing * Kane, Will (1999) interview in ''Sugar Buzz: Live at Budokan!'', 180-91 Slab-O-Concrete 1962 births Living people British comics writers {{UK-comics-creator-stub