Alex Hirsch

Alexander ("Alex") Robert Hirsch, was born on June 18, 1985 in Piedmont, California. As he said himself, he had always wanted to be a creator of cartoons and that is why he went to CalArts (California Institute of the Arts). He graduated in 2007. Since then he has worked as a cartoonist, storyboard artist and voice actor in many productions for children, e.g., he was a co-writer of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008–2010) for Cartoon Network and co-creator of Fish Hooks (2010–2014) for Disney Channel. 

Hirsch’s most famous work though is Gravity Falls (2012–2016) aired on Disney Channel and Disney XD. It is a story about siblings – twins Dipper and Mabel Pines spend their summer in a Mystery Shack, a local tourist attraction run by their uncle Stan Pines. Stan is a mountebank who collects "wonders" from the woods and put them into display (e.g., he has sewn together two animals claiming it was a newly discovered hybrid). But a real mystery is hiding in the woods: in the first episode, Dipper finds a mysterious books full of guidelines about strange creatures and phenomena that the siblings discover in the following episodes. Some of them are inspired by the classical antiquity. 

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Twitter (accessed: May 13, 2019)

Bio prepared by Anna Mik, University of Warsaw, anna.m.mik@gmail.com

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Records in database:

• Gravity Falls (Series, S01E06): Dipper vs. Manliness
• Gravity Falls (Series, S01E15): The Deep End

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