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Betty Paraskevas 

a New York-based writer and lyricist best known for her work on Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, but adapted into a animated television series and produced by the Canadian studio Nelvana.
Betty Paraskevas died on April 7, 2010, from complications due to pancreatic cancer; in Southampton, New York, one day before her 81st birthday.
Betty Paraskevas by SPrice1980 June 23, 2023

Michael Paraskevas 

an American illustrator, cartoonist, and animation producer best known for co-creating along with his mother Betty in the Canadian animated children's television series Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
. Hamptons Artist Michael Paraskevas On His New Book And His Inspiration: His newest children's book, Mr. Moon, is a collaboration with his wife, Maria

Betty Paraskevas 

a New York-based writer and lyricist best known for her work on Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, but adapted into a animated television series
TV writer Betty Paraskevas dies, 80
Betty Paraskevas by Wendysfg June 23, 2023

Michael Paraskevas 

an American illustrator, cartoonist, and animation producer best known for co-creating along with his mother Betty in the Canadian animated children's television series Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
Michael Paraskevas graduated from the School of Visual Arts1 (SVA) in 1984. Studying illustration and journalism, he received his MFA from SVA in 1986
Michael Paraskevas by Wendysfg June 23, 2023

Michael Paraskevas 

an American illustrator, cartoonist, and animation producer best known for co-creating along with his mother Betty in the Canadian animated children's television series Maggie and the Ferocious Beast.2 The show was based on the 1996 book The Ferocious Beast with the Polka-Dot Hide and its sequels, all of which were also created by the Paraskevases
Michael Paraskevas' illustration work has appeared in magazines all over the world, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Town & Country, Esquire, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Betty Paraskevas 

New York-based writer and lyricist best known for her work on Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, but adapted into a animated television series and produced by the Canadian studio Nelvana.
Betty Paraskevas, who created and wrote for several children's television shows, including "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast," died at her Southampton home on April 7, a day before her 81st birthday. The cause was pancreatic cancer.

Paraskevas was born in Linden, N.J., on April 8, 1929. She attended Douglass College in New Jersey, where the future writer had a most unlikely major: chemistry.
Betty Paraskevas by SPrice1980 June 25, 2023
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I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
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