Douglas TenNapel is an American musician, animator, Eisner Award winning artist and film maker.

TenNapel started out as an animator on Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and soon began working in the video game industry on projects like 1993's Jurassic Park for the Sega Genesis, Stimpy's Invention also for the Sega Genesis and Jungle Book for the SNES and Sega Genesis. In 1994, TenNapel created the Earthworm Jim video game and cartoon series.

In 1996 TenNapel created what is perhaps his most famous creation to date for Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks, The Neverhood for the PC. TenNapel also made a sequel for the Neverhood entitled Skullmonkeys in 1998.

In the late 1990's, TenNapel began filming his first feature length live action film, entitled Mothman. Although there have been a handful of screenings at Comedian Conventions, as of 2002, that film was never finished. The movie seemed cursed by some. Gene Andrusco, who was the film's music editor, and performed some of the music, as a member of the Lost Dogs, died somewhat mysteriously. Andrusco, 38, was found dead in his production studio in Huntington Beach, California, during the early morning of March 30, 2000, of a brain aneurysm or heart attack. The sudden passing of Andrusco is today chronicled on The Mothman Death List (http://www.lorencoleman.com/mothman_death_list.html). TenNapel's Mothman movie remains perhaps unfinished, and certainly, unreleased.

TenNapel was also the creator of the Project G.e.e.K.e.R. cartoon series for CBS, and was a consulting producer on the ABC series Push, Nevada with Ben Affleck.

In 2002, TenNapel released his first graphic novel, Creature Tech, which is Top Shelf's fastest selling book ever. TenNapel's graphic novel was soon the focus of a bidding war between movie studios. 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises won the war and plan to start filming a live action motion picture based on the novel in 2004.

Nickelodeon is also currently developing an animated cartoon series based on TenNapel's comic book, Gear titled "Cat Scratch".

TenNapel is also the lead singer of an independent band called Truck, who has opened for U2.

Discography

• When Worlds Collide Various Artists, 1999 Daniel Amos tribute album

Filmography

• Earthworm Jim, cartoon
• Project G.e.e.K.e.R., cartoon
• Mothman
• Koghead and Meatus, animated short
• Push, Nevada, consulting producer
• Sockbaby, Director and Actor

Bibliography

• Gear, Graphic novel
• Creature Tech, 2002 Graphic novel
• Tommysaurus Rex, 2004 Graphic novel

External links

• www.TenNapel.com
• www.Sockbaby.com (http://www.sockbaby.com)
• Free & legal MP3s of TenNapel's band, Truck (http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/84/truckrock.html)