Cartoon Network’s Courage the Cowardly Dog writer David Steven Cohen has died after battling cancer.
He was 58.
Cohen’s death was announced on Facebook by his longtime friend animation historian Jerry Beck.
He joined the writing team of Courage the Cowardly Dog in Season 1 and later became the head writer, which ran from 1999-2002.
The show centres Courage, a timid dog living in a remote farmhouse with his elderly owners. Despite its isolation, the house attracts all kinds of sinister visitors, leading Courage to protect his unsuspecting owners.
After four seasons of Courage, Cohen contributed episodes to kids’ and preschool toons including Kenny the Shark, Viva Piñata, Arthur, Peg+Cat, Little People, Space Racers and Treasure Trekkers.
Cohen began his TV career in the mid-1980s, writing for live-action comedies like Mr President, ALF, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, and Living Single.
He also wrote the live-action/puppet film The Wickedest Witch, starring Rue McClanahan.
His first major break in animation came in 1988 with ALF Tales, an animated spin-off, which he co-wrote and developed with Roger SH Schulman (Shrek).
Throughout his career, Cohen earned two Primetime Emmy nominations for The Wubbulous World of Dr Seuss. In the 2010s, he was part of the Daytime Emmy-nominated writing team for Arthur and won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program for Peg+Cat.
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