# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-tennapel
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:30.566Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-tennapel"
name: "Doug TenNapel"
slug: "doug-tennapel"
description: "Douglas Richard TenNapel is an American animator, writer, cartoonist, video game designer, and comic book artist whose work has encompassed animated television, video games, and comic books. He is best known for creating Earthworm Jim, a character that spawned a video game series, animated series, and a toy line. He is also the creator of the animated television series Catscratch (2005–2007), which aired on Nickelodeon, and was itself a loose adaptation of TenNapel's comic book limited series Gear."
tagline: "American animator, writer, cartoonist, video game designer, and comic book artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DougTenNapelJune2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           72
  momentum:             10.55180870631514
  historical:           7.047824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 422000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DougTenNapel"
    handle:    "DougTenNapel"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855066/"
    handle:    "nm0855066"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp8GId3Figb51baHAJjxHCg"
    handle:    "@thenewwesterntimes"
    followers: 422000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دوغ تينابل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_TenNapel"
    title: "Doug TenNapel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_TenNapel"
    title: "Douglas TenNapel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%9D%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Тен-Нэйпел, Дуглас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Doug_TenNapel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0ca02622-41c8-4135-b0b1-96f554d33778"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234876"
    title: "Doug TenNapel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump