Dan Vebber is an American 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 Emmy Awards 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.