Dan Vebber is an Emmy Award-winning writer best known for his television work on animated shows such as The Simpsons, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Futurama, Daria, Napoleon Dynamite and American Dad!. He was also a writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Vebber was nominated for Emmys in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 2011.Vebber got his start as a cartoonist, writer, and editor at The Daily Cardinal and The Onion in the early 1990s.