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So who is exactly is Ned Noodlehead? Well, we know he is a creator and he is the "Comic Kid". He sort of reminds me of Greg Heffley the Wimpy Kid, on Wimpy Boardwalk or on Wimpy Wonderland. Ned Noodlehead is infact Jeff Kinney the creator of Poptropica! This blog is the second one in my series on how Poptropica all works. This blog will explain some information about Jeff Kinney and what he does at Poptropica.

Jeff Kinney has achieved many acomplishments in his life. He attended college at the University of Maryland, where he took courses on writing, art, and web design and animation.Kinney had a natural talent for writing and drawing, which was proved when Kinney had his comic halled idgoof published in the college newspaper called The Diamondback. Jeff Kinney eventually started working with Family Education Network on the site Funbrain, parterning with Jess M.Brailler. Even though Jeff Kinney did not work for Family Education Network, or any other Pearson Education subsidaries/affilliates he started an online comic  via Funbrain called the Diary of the Wimpy Kid that was published by Brailler.Jeff's style of cartoon in Wimpy Kid  would later be used by Funbrain and later Poptropica. Jeff continued to write Diary of a Wimpy Kid as an online comic up until 2005. Soon children wanted printed copies, and Jeff started to write his comic into book which was published in 2008, one year after he made Poptropica.

Sometime around 2007, Jeff Kinney was hired at Family Education Network and was tasked with Funbrain. Jeff Kinney supported the development of the Funbrain Arcade, most reconizbly on Mighty Guy, due to the same cartoon style. Soon Jeff Kinney came up with an idea for a kids virtual world side, that would work with funbrain. So Jeff Kinney founded Poptropica, with the support of Brailler. Jeff Kinney contacted Jordan Leary and Nate Greenwall to assist him with the project. Jeff Kinney now works on illustrating and designing for Poptropica in Boston, while most of the other Poptropica Creators live and work in the Pearson Education building in Utah.