Synopsis

A beast named Bunsen, who is the first beast in his human school, and Mikey Monroe, his human friend, try to navigate through school life when a girl named Amanda wants Bunsen gone so that his kind will suffer from extinction.

He originally considered writing a picture book featuring the characters, but decided against going forward with the idea until an executive from Nickelodeon saw the drawing and encouraged him to develop the concept into a television program.

A sneak peek of Bunsen Is a Beast was first shown at Comic-Con in 2016.

The idea for Bunsen Is a Beast originated in a drawing of a monster facing a boy that Hartman drew in 2009.

According to an article published in Variety, he kept the drawing in his office at Nickelodeon until a network executive noticed it and asked him to pitch the concept as a television show.

He then began developing the show in 2012 and was given the green light in 2014 to start working on a story board for it.

The message that "no matter who you are, you can always find a place to fit in" inspired the show's underlying theme of embracing integration.