Natasha Allegri

Natasha Allegri (born June 18, 1986) is an American writer, storyboard revisionist and artist, 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 Bee and PuppyCat.

Natasha Allegri is the daughter of an Okinawan mother and a Bolivian father. She lives 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.

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 since. While working on the show, Allegri began drawing gender-swapped versions of the show's characters, including Fionna and Cake as her gender-swapped versions of Finn and Jake, and eventually these characters were featured in full episodes of Adventure Time. Since August 6, 2013, she also has written and illustrated Fionna and Cake comics for BOOM! Studios.

Allegri created and produced her own animated short, Bee and PuppyCat, for Frederator Studios' YouTube channel Cartoon Hangover. The episode introduces viewers to Bee, a recently unemployed adolescent, 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 4th most funded Video and Film project to date.

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