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90s kids left devastated as mastermind behind legendary children's show dies aged 58
His friend Jerry Beck, a historian of animation, broke the news on Facebook this Wednesday saying Cohen succumbed to cancer .
As news spread of Cohen's death, fans began sharing their grief on social media, posting messages like: 'Thank you for making our childhood awesome' and 'thanks for giving me a good child hood bro.' He also wrote on a variety of other cartoon series like Phil Of The Future and Arthur (pictured), and scripted the animated film Balto about a real-life heroic husky in Alaska Cohen also wrote the 1995 animated film Balto, produced by Steven Spielberg, which dramatized the real story of a husky who led a transport of medicine through a brutal winter to rescue the town of Nome, Alaska from a diphtheria outbreak in 1925.
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