Career
Born in Liverpool, Merseyside on 11 September 1962, carney began writing comics in the 80s for Fleetway Editions in the United Kingdom and First and Dark Horse in the United States. He is probably best known in the comics world as co-creator with Woodrow Phoenix of a humorous anthology comic called SugarBuzz published by Slave Labor Graphics, featuring a cast of over fifty characters. The most popular being Pants Ant, who featured in an animated cartoon for The Cartoon Network. And the Where"s lieutenant At, Sugar Kat? series which was also optioned for film and television projects by Walt Disney incorporated
He has also created Axis Mundi with artist Garry Marshall, Randy The Skeleton with artist Aidan Potts and A Bagful of Anteaters with artist Jonathan Edwards.
Carney now works primarily as an animation writer in the United Kingdom for children"s cartoon series. He has written scripts for shows in the United Kingdom including Chuggington, The Cramp Twins, Bob The Builder, The Hoobs, Shaun the Sheep, Noddy, Tracy Beaker, Metalheads, The Octonauts, Emu, The Rubberdubbers, Zingzillas, Noddy, Combos Ninos, Nina and the Neurons, Tommy Zoom, Tree Fu Tom and Pinky and Perky.
He was co-creator and head writer on the European cartoon series Commander Clark and head writer of Angry Birds.