Jeff Kinney

Jeffrey "Jeff" Kinney was born on February 19th, 1971 in Maryland. He is the creator of Poptropica and also the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Information
Besides Poptropica, he wrote the popular books of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He is an American game designer and author of children's books. In 2009, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 "Most Influential People" in the world. During his college years, he created the comic Igdoof that ran in his campus' newspaper, The Diamondback.

Personal Life
He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, Julia, and their two sons, Will and Grant. He has a full-time job as the design director of a Boston-based Internet publishing company. There, he made Poptropica

On Poptropica
Jeff Kinney created Poptropica in 2007. Jeff Kinney had took cartoon in college and used his skills on Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Poptropica. The same year his first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book was published, he created Poptropica.He used a Default account to test several things on Poptropica. He drew Poptropica to look close to his Diary of Wimpy Kid books (and it was his style of art). Kinney had been working at Boston Based Internet publishing company, where he learned web designing, and he used those skills combined with his drawing skills to animate Poptropica to life. Jeff Kinney designed Poptropica, with the help of a few others and then published it. He created himself a character; Ned Noodlehead who was eventually put into Super Power Island. He came up with the ideas for the 1st few islands of Poptropica, inlcuding, Early Poptropica Island,Shark Tooth Island, and also came up with the ideas of Big Nate Island and Wimpy Kid related Islands.

Job On Poptropica
Jeff Kinney would hold Daily Meetings with the employees on Poptropica. Jeff Kinney would talk over with his staff about ideas for Poptropica. Once an idea was created Jeff Kinney sketched it up and presented it to the staff. Then the Staff would get to work on putting their ideas into Poptropica for people to play. Jeff Kinney is also in charge of hiring/firing people for Poptropica and is in charge of external affairs (this means get permission to use books for islands, accept advertisements from companies). Jeff Kinney would also help with designing the home page using c++ and Javascript.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Apart from being known for Poptropica, he is also well known for Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. He first started Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by starting it on funbrain.com in 2004, where it got viewed over 20 Million times. After that, he converted it into a book series. In 2007 the first Wimpy Kid book was released, Jeff Kinney also upgraded the drawings and changed and cut some of the script. Then he also published a sequel called Rodrick Rules in 2008, then published a activity book in 2008 also and also a sequel called The Last Straw in 2009, later he released Dog Days also in 2009, then The Ugly Truth in 2010, Cabin Fever in 2011, and The Third Wheel in 2012. It also got converted into a movie series, even a movie diary was released in which there was information about the movie and how it was made, he released three of them, in 2010, 2011, and 2012 respectivley. He also played minor roles in the Wimpy Kid films.