Natasha Allegri
Natasha Allegri (born June 18, 1986) is an American animation creator, writer, storyboard artist, storyboard revisionist, and comic book artist. She is best known for her work as a storyboard revisionist for Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time", and as the creator of Cartoon Hangover's and Frederator Studios' "Bee and PuppyCat". Early life. Born in June 1986, Allegri is the daughter of an Okinawan mother and a Bolivian father of French, Italian and Native Bolivian descent. Allegri grew up in Inverness, Florida. In high school and college, she made comics about her life that she posted to LiveJournal , which is how she met Pendleton Ward. Section::::"Adventure Time". While in college at the University of Arizona in Tucson, her friend, and creator of "Adventure Time", Pendleton Ward, contacted her about working on "Adventure Time" and she has worked on the show for five seasons. While working on the show, Allegri began drawing gender-swapped web comics of the show's characters, including "Fionna and Cake" as her gender-swapped versions of Finn and Jake. Eventually, after being showcased on Frederator's popular "Adventure Time" tumblr, these characters were featured in full episodes of "Adventure Time". Since August 6, 2013 , she has also written and illustrated "Fionna and Cake" comics for BOOM! Studios. Section::::"Bee and PuppyCat". Allegri created and produced her own animated short, "Bee and PuppyCat", for Frederator Studios' YouTube channel Cartoon Hangover which was released on July 11, 2013. The episode introduces viewers to Bee, a recently unemployed young woman, and PuppyCat, a small and mysterious creature resembling both a dog and a cat. Bee takes PuppyCat in and, in return, he helps her find strange temp work, in this case babysitting a giant fish named Wallace in Fishbowl Space. In response to fans' overwhelming love for the  original "Bee and PuppyCat" short, Frederator launched a Kickstarter on October 14, 2013, to raise funds for a full season. The Kickstarter was successful, raising Frederator $872,133 toward the production of "Bee and PuppyCat", the animated series. This exceeded their original goal of $600,000 and made them the 10th most funded Video and Film project to date. Crowdfunding Success. Natasha Allegri's successful campaign on Kickstarter has been seen as an example of digital-age crowdfunding mechanisms' role on enabling creators reliant on direct fan investment. Comic Books. Allegri has created multiple graphic novels/comic books starring "Fionna  and Cake" and "Bee and PuppyCat", respectively. Bee and Puppycat: Bee and Puppycat #1, created with Garrett Jackson. Bee and Puppycat #2, created with Garrett Jackson. Bee and Puppycat #3, created with Madeleine Flores, Ian McGinty, Anissa Espinosa, and Tait Howard. Bee and Puppycat #4, created with T. Zysk, Mad Rupert, Coleman Engle, Aimee Fleck, Pranas Naujokaitis, and Anissa Espinosa. Bee and Puppycat, Vol. 1 (#1-4), created with the aforementioned. Bee and Puppycat #5, created with T. Zysk, Chrystin Garland, Flynn Nicholls, and Meredith McClaren. Bee and Puppycat #6, created with Andrew Lorenzi, Joy Ang, Meredith McClaren, and Carey  Pietsch. Bee and Puppycat #7, created with Garrett Jackson. Bee and Puppycat #8, created with David Calderón, Liz Fleming, Coleman Engle, Reimena Yee, and T. Zysk. Bee and Puppycat, Vol. 2 (#5-8), created with the aforementioned. Bee and Puppycat #9, created (without the help of Natasha Allegri) by Patrick Seery, and Ji in Kim. Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake: Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #1, created with ND Stevenson. Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #2, created with Lucy Knisley. Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #3, created by Natasha Allegri. Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #4, created by Natasha Allegri . Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #5, created with Lucy Knisley. Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #6, created with Betty Liang. Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake, Vol. 1, created with Lucy Knisley, and Kate Leth. Influences. Allegri has named several of her influences including works by Rumiko Takahashi, "Sailor Moon" and "Superbook", as well as "Bob's Burgers" and her cat, Pancake. Other work. Allegri sang the theme song for the Fionna and Cake episode of "Adventure Time". Additionally, she served as a storyboard revisionist for the "Bravest Warriors" episode "Butter Lettuce" and has contributed to the miniseries "Over the Garden  Wall" as writer and storyboard artist. She also provided the official art for the Vocaloid soundbank "Ruby", released by PowerFX. This art was based upon a concept design by illustrator D-Artemisso. In 2017, Allegri directed "The Summoning," created by Elyse Castro, for Frederator's Cartoon Hangover channel. It is the first short cartoon from GO! Cartoons. In 2019, Allegri was co-author of the OpenBSD 6.5 poster and was the author of the OpenBSD 6.6 and 7.0 posters. She is a writer for the anime series "Cannon Busters".