Brian Cosgrove Brian Cosgrove Brian Joseph Cosgrove OBE (born 6 April 1934) is an English BAFTA Award winning director, producer, animator, designer and sculptor best known as the creator of the animated children shows "Danger Mouse" and "Count Duckula". Born in North Manchester, Cosgrove studied at Manchester College of Art and Design, there he met his future work partner Mark Hall. Cosgrove started career by producing television graphics at Granada Television. He later on joined Stop Frame Productions, which Mark Hall founded, there he worked on many public service films, commercials for companies like TVTimes and directing and produced animated shows such
Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children is a 1999 collection of illustrated short stories written by Angus Oblong. The stories mostly feature children and adolescents, although one story is about a dog. Several of the characters were eventually adapted for use in the animated television series "The Oblongs". Contrary to the title, children are not the book's target audience, as the book contains sexual situations, cannibalism and murder. "The Oblongs" is a television series based on the characters from this book. Milo from the book becomes