Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, animator, author and comic strip creator.
[1] Nancy Beiman's first comic strip FurBabies was accepted by Andrews McMeel Universal on its first submission and can be viewed online on the GoComics site.
FurBabies is about a blended family of dogs, cat and human who all speak with one another and deal with issues such as frequency of baths, sibling rivalry, and whether food tastes better when eaten at the table or off the floor.
Shawm the Afghan hound is named after an oboe, and is partly based on Beiman's father, who was a professional oboist.
She joined the Walt Disney Company full time as a supervising animator and development artist for A Goofy Movie (1995), Hercules (1997), Treasure Planet (2002), Tarzan II (2005).