Credits

 

Michael Fry

Cartoonist/Writer

Feature Films:

  Produced: 

Over the Hedge (2001-2006 )

• Dreamworks Feature Animation
• Creative consultant (with T Lewis)
• Release date:  May 19, 2006.

Over the Hedge (1997-2001)

• 20th Centuy Fox-Fox Family Films
• Screenwriter (with T Lewis)

  Optioned:

Dead Serious (2004- ) Live action/CGI

• Core Digital Pictures (Fred Fuchs producing)
• Screenwriter

The Bear Essentials (2000) Live action/CGI

• Storyopolis Productions
• Screenwriter

Television:

  Produced:

Committed  (1999-2001 )

• Nelvana
• Creator/Executive Producer
• Primetime animated series (13 episodes) produced for Fox Family Channel and CTV. 
• Aired in Canada, March 2001 on CTV.  Aired in the US, October 2002 on WE: Women’s Entertainment Network.  Also aired in Germany, France, Portugal, Norway, Israel, Australia, and Senegal.

Mighty Max (1993)

• Film Roman
• Writer (Episode 1.7 w/Mark Zaslove)

  Optioned:

EiEiYO! (2003)

• Sony Television Animation
• Creator/Producer/Writer (with David Feiss (creator of “Cow and Chicken”)
• Optioned 

When I Was Short (2000)

• Warner Bros. Television Animation
• Creator/Producer/Writer (with Guy Vasilovich)
• Fully produced animated pilot for Kids WB. 
• Option extended (May 2001).

Syndicated Comic Strips:

Over the Hedge (with T Lewis) (1995- )

United Media

• Creator/Writer
• Internationally syndicated in 120 newspapers.

Committed (1994-2006)

• United Media
• Creator/Writer/Illustrator
• Internationally syndicated in 50 newspapers.

When I Was Short  (with Guy Vasilovich) (1989-92)

• King Features
• Internationally syndicated comic strip

Cheeverwood   (1985-87)

• The Washington Post Writers Group
• Internationally syndicated comic strip

Other Comics:

Out the Window (1996-1998)

• Windows Sources Magazine
• Ziff-Davis Publications
• Monthly cartoon

No Bull   (1991-94)

• The Houston Press
• Weekly editorial cartoon

Scotty (1983-91)

• The Houston Post,
• Daily local comic strip

Internet:

RingTales 

• The New Yorker Animated Cartoons (2006- ),
• Dilbert (2007- )
• Over the Hedge (2009- )
• Pooch Cafe (2009- )
• Lio (2010- )
• Cul de Sac (2010- )
• Pearls Before Swine (2010- )
• Bloom County (2010- )
• Open Season Shorts (2006)
• Distributed by iTunes, YouTube, MSN, newyorker.com and others.
• Producer/Director/Story Reels/Voices
• Animated comics for all digital media

Live Nude Geeks (2005-2006 )

• Ziff-Davis Internet (PCweek.com, Eweek.com, etc.)
• Creator/Writer/Producer/Director/Animator/Voices
• Flash animated tech talk show.

Thugs on Film (1999- )

• Mondo Media
• Writer (4 episodes)
• Syndicated series of web-based animated interactive short films.

BuzzBoy  (1998-1999)

• Microsoft Sidwalk
• Web based daily comic strip.

Published Books:

Over the Hedge: Stuffed Animals

• Andrews & McMeel Publishers, 2006

Over The Hedge 3:  The Knights of the Picnic Table

• Andrews & McMeel Publishers, 1997.

Over the Hedge 2

• Andrews & McMeel Publishers, 1997.

Over the Hedge

• Andrews & McMeel Publishers, 1996.

Send in The Stunt Mom: The Second Collection of Committed

• Andrews & McMeel Publishers, 1997

What I Want To Be When THEY Grow Up:  The First Collection of Committed

• Andrews & McMeeI Publishers, 1996.

When I Was Short

• Avon Books, 1991

Scotty II: Born To Be Mild

• Finetoon Books, 1989.

Scotty’s Houston

• Loud Books, 1988.

Commercial Illustration:

Corporations:   Hewitt arid Associates, Exxon, Mead Paper, Panhandle Eastern.

Publications:  Playboy, Good Housekeeping, Photography Today, The Houston Post, The Houston Press, The Texas Observer, The Salt Journal.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1982

Awards and Honors

2007 Webbys

• The New Yorker Animated Cartoons nominated for Best Animated Shorts

2006 National Cartoonist Society

• Finalist for Best Newspaper Comic Strip for Over the Hedge (with T Lewis)

2001 Cartoons on the Bay Television Animation Awards

• Nomination for Outstanding Series for All Audiences for Committed.

1998 Wilber Award

• Outstanding Comic Strip for Over the Hedge (with T Lewis)
• The Religious Communicator’s Council.

Who’s Who in The Comics

• The Great American Comic Strip: 100 Years of Cartoon Art, 1990.

Professional Affiliations

Member:  Writers Guild of America-West