Ben Bocquelet

===''The Amazing World of Gumball''===

===''The Amazing World of Gumball''===

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After leaving [[Studio AKA]], the creative director at the studio encouraged Bocquelet to join the new [[Cartoon Network]] studio in [[London]], [[Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe|Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe]]. He received a job there helping other people pitch their ideas to Cartoon Network, and came up with his own idea while doing so. He pitched his idea to the producers. His idea was a show called ''Gumball'' about reject cartoon characters attending a remedial school, but producers felt this concept was too sad. He then revised this idea and made it more cheery, taking on the structure of a family sitcom. The producers liked this idea, and work went underway for what would become ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', which premiered on Cartoon Network on 3 May 2011. He named some characters after his relatives (Nicole, Richard, and Anais were named after his mother, father, and sister, respectively). In October 2011, Bocquelet revealed in a [[Twitter]] post that the Wattersons themselves were named after [[Bill Watterson]], the creator of the comic strip ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''.{{cite tweet |last=Bocquelet |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Bocquelet |user=benbocquelet |number=121249424117727232 |date=October 4, 2011 |title=@KJBelgeri It's a reference to my hero Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. |language=en |access-date=October 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041557/https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/121249424117727232 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=live}}

After leaving [[Studio AKA]], the creative director at the studio encouraged Bocquelet to join the new [[Cartoon Network]] studio in [[London]], [[Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe|Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe]]. He received a job there helping other people pitch their ideas to Cartoon Network, and came up with his own idea while doing so. He pitched his idea to the producers. His idea was a show called ''Gumball'' about reject cartoon characters attending a remedial school, but producers felt this concept was too sad. He then revised this idea and made it more cheery, taking on the structure of a family sitcom. The producers liked this idea, and work went underway for what would become ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', which premiered on Cartoon Network on 3 May 2011. He named some characters after his relatives (Nicole, Richard, and Anais were named after his mother, father, and sister, respectively). In October 2011, Bocquelet revealed in a [[Twitter]] post that the Wattersons themselves were named after [[Bill Watterson]], the creator of the comic strip ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''.{{cite tweet |last=Bocquelet |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Bocquelet |user=benbocquelet |number=121249424117727232 |date=October 4, 2011 |title=@KJBelgeri It's a reference to my hero Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. |language=en |access-date=October 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041557/https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/121249424117727232 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=live}}