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Hamish Steele

Hamish Steele is an English animator, television writer and graphic novelist.

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Hamish Steele (born c. 1991)1 is an English animator, television writer and graphic novelist.

Career

A graduate of Kingston University, Steele directed Dead End, an animated short for Frederator Studio's Cartoon Hangover, in 2014.2 This led to him directing two animated short films for Nickelodeon's International Shorts program. He simultaneously pursued a career in webcomics and graphic novels, publishing his first novel, Pantheon in 2014.

He also expanded his short film Dead End into the webcomic DeadEndia, which ran on Tapas from 2015 to 2018, but was then significantly revised for publication as a graphic novel DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test by Nobrow Press in 2018.34 In 2022, The Watcher's Test was partially adapted by Blink Industries and Netflix Animation as an animated fantasy horror comedy television series, Dead End: Paranormal Park, with Steele serving as showrunner and executive producer.5 The series received positive critical acclaim and several accolades, including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming. Despite the cancellation of Paranormal Park after two seasons, the story of DeadEndia was continued in two sequel graphic novels, The Broken Halo (2019) and The Divine Order (2025).67

Personal life

Steele was diagnosed with autism in 2022, aged 31.1 He is gay1 and married his husband in 2011.8

Filmography

  • Dead End (2014, short)
  • Badly Drawn Animals (2015, short)
  • The Tall Tales of Urchin (2016, short)
  • Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022, two seasons, creator)
Bibliography

Bibliography

Comics and graphic novels

  • Pantheon (2014, republished 2018)
  • DeadEndia trilogy
    • DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test (2018, republished 2023)
    • DeadEndia: The Broken Halo (2019, republished 2023)
    • DeadEndia: The Divine Order (2024)
  • The Wicked + The Divine: The Funnies ("5 Things Everyone Who's Lived with Sakhmet Will Understand", written and drawn)
  • Croc and Roll (2021, illustrated by George Williams)
  • Go-Man: Champion of Earth (2025)9

Audio dramas

Accolades

Accolades received by Warfare
Date Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
2018 Eisner Awards Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award Hamish Steele (for Pantheon) Won (tie) 10
2019 American Library Association Rainbow Book List Young Adult Fiction Hamish Steele (for DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test) Shortlisted 11
2023 Dorian Awards Best Animated Show Dead End: Paranormal Park Nominated 12
GLAAD Media Award Outstanding Kids and Family Programming (Animated) Dead End: Paranormal Park Won 13
References

References

  1. Steele, Hamish; Shatto, Rachel (1 June 2023). "Hamish Steele: How Writing A Queer, Autistic Teen Helped Me Accept My Past". PRIDE.com. Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  2. Amidi, Amid (2014-01-30). "Exclusive: Nickelodeon Announces 2014 Animated Shorts Program". Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  3. Tapas. "Read DeadEndia: The Original Run | Tapas Web Community". Read DeadEndia: The Original Run. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  4. Tapas. "Read DeadEndia | Tapas Web Community". Read DeadEndia. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  5. "Quirky, spooky and hilarious world of 'DeadEndia' comes to Netflix in a new animated series". About Netflix. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  6. DeadEndia: The Broken Halo. 2025-03-21. ISBN 978-1-4549-4899-5.
  7. "DeadEndia: The Divine Order – Queer Comics Database". Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  8. "✨hamish steele✨ on Twitter". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2021-09-29. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  9. "GO-MAN1 — Hamish Steele". hamishsteele.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  10. McMillan, Graeme (2018-07-21). "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  11. "The 2019 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Archived from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  12. "Daytime Emmys Nominees (Program - Non-Drama)". The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. 19 April 2018. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  13. "The Nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards". GLAAD. 28 January 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
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