Patrick Nolen McHale (born November 17, 1983) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, director, and musician.

He began his professional career at Cartoon Network Studios in 2007, as a writer and storyboard artist on Thurop Van Orman's The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

McHale won a National Cartoonists Society Reuben award[4] as the creator of Over the Garden Wall, in the category for TV Animation.

[7] In 2016, McHale received an Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids as the creator and a writer of the Over the Garden Wall comic book featuring the characters who first appeared in the television series.

[11] In February 2021, Netflix announced that McHale would serve as scriptwriter for an animated film adaptation of the novel Redwall by Brian Jacques, an English author.

[15] Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Over the Garden Wall, McHale collaborated with Aardman Animation to create a stop motion short featuring characters from the show.