Patrick McHale

Patrick McHale is, to me, one of those rare creators whose fingerprints sit on every frame. Animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, director, and musician, he poured all of that into Over the Garden Wall, and the result is a world with an utterly consistent atmosphere of autumnal melancholy. That Emmy-winning miniseries revived the eeriness and warmth of old fairy tales for a modern audience without feeling like pastiche. I admire how completely he commits to a tone, and I suspect his quiet, multidisciplinary craftsmanship is exactly why his work lingers long after the credits roll.

Name (English)

Patrick McHale

Name (Japanese)

パトリック・マクヘイル

Reading

ぱとりっく・まくへいる

Born

November 17, 1983 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

Origin

The Chathams, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / storyboard artist / animator / comics writer / creative director

Awards & achievements

• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program

• Official sitehttps://www.oldsidelinghill.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/Patrick_McHale
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20McHale%20(artist)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17386526

Tags

• New Jersey
• screenwriter
• storyboard artist
• animator

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.