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In 2020, Zinn retired from webmastering to focus on other work and declares herself semi-retired.
 
In 2020, Zinn retired from webmastering to focus on other work and declares herself semi-retired.
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==== ''Amanda & Elisa'' (2004-2009)====
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Zinn previously had a first running, successful [[wikipedia:adult animation|adult]] [[wikipedia:animated sitcom|animated series]] in ''Amanda and Elisa'' which was in production from 2004 to 2009. To date along with ''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'', ''Amanda & Elisa'' are Zinn's animated series to have suffered an official cancellation.
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The series ended on June 27, 2009, with a total of 5 seasons and 100 episodes, and the title characters moved to ''Queen of the Willis'' in the episode ''[[The Story of Amanda and Elisa]]''.
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==== ''Queen of the Willis'' (2006-12 and 2019-26) ====
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Although Zinn enjoyed her career as a webmaster and journalist, she felt her real calling was for the small screen and animation, which would allow a much edgier style of humor. She first pitched ''Queen of the Willis'' to ABC Fantasy TV Stations, CBS Fantasy Televsion, NBC Owned Fantasy TV Stations, and DakMedia. ATE Media offered the then young writer a strange deal: [[Patrice Rafferty]] gave her a budget of US$5,000 to produce a pilot that could lead to a series (most episodes of animated prime-time productions cost at least US$1-2 million). Zinn recalled the experience in an intervie, Zinn stated, "I spent about four years with no sleep and no life, just drawing like crazy in my kitchen and doing this pilot".
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In 2002, Zinn returned to ATE Media with a "very, very simply, crudely animated film – with just enough to get the tone of the show across" to present to the executives, who loved the pilot and ordered the series immediately. In Feburary 2006, ATE Media Corporation announced the purchase of ''Queen of the Willis'' for a August 2006 debut. At age 24, Zinn (tying with [[wikipedia:Family Guy|''Family Guy'']] crator [[wikipedia:Seth MacFarlane|Seth MacFarlane]] in 1997) television's youngest executive producer.
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''Queen of the Willis'' first aired August 12, 2006. Zinn's work in animating ''Queen of the Willis'' has been influenced by Jack Klugman along with examples from ''King of the Hill'', ''Family Guy'' and ''Growing Pains''.<ref name="personal">??</ref> In addition to writing various episodes, including "[[Pilot (Queen of the Willis)|Pilot]]", "[[Ten Years to Life]]" and "[[The Rape of Heather Willis]]", Zinn voices ''Queen of the Willis''{{'}}s main transgendered female characters – [[Ava Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Ava Willis]], [[Tabby Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Tabby Willis]], Zach Mullins, Addison Ellissong, Michelle Wilson – as well as male characters [[Ron Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Ron Willis]], Dr. Mario Coxson, [[Zach Mullins]], Robert "Crob Bob" Craven and Mullins' grandson Caleb Mullins – and female characters [[Shushu Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Shushu Willis]], [[Heather Willis (Queen of the Willis)|Heather Willis]], [[Anna Pamhouser]], Angelika Mullins, Amanda Dawson, and Elisa Donovan and additional characters.
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Despite its popularity, ''Queen of the Willis'' has often been [[criticism of Queen of the Willis|criticized]].<ref>??</ref> The Parents Television Council frequently criticizes the show for its content, once organized a letter-writing campaign aimed at removing it from a network's lineup (although it airs in syndication),<ref>??</ref> and has filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission alleging that some episodes of the show contained indecent content.<ref>??</ref> Zinn has responded to the criticism by saying, among other things, "I've been used to getting a butt load of hate mail and these terrible human beings act like Commies or Nazis."<ref name="Advocate">{{cite news |title = Ava Zinn's One and Only Male Interview |quote = ..... these  terrible human beings act like they are Commies or Nazis. I've read their newsletter, I've visited their website, and they're just complete idots to the core. For an organization that prides itself on Catholic values—I mean, I'm a Methodist and a transgendered woman that still likes women, so what do I know?—they spend their entire day hating people.
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''Queen of the Willis'' has been cancelled twice, although strong fan support and YouTube views have caused CBS Television Distribution to reconsider. Zinn mentioned how these cancellations affected the lineup of writers each time. "One of the positive aspects of ''Queen of the Willis'' constantly being pulled off [the air] is that we were always having to restaff writers and recasting". In Fort Wayne, the show has moved from then-ATE Media owned ABC affiliate [[WMRI-FTV|WMRI]] (now an ABC O&O) to NoSirGifts-owned CBS affiliate/independent station (and flagship) duopoly [[WTOR-FTV|WTOR]]/[[WXXC-FDT]] in 2007 where it aired since while in Indianapolis, the show has moved from [[WHOO-FTV]] to [[WIFX-FTV]] in 2007 where it aired from 2007 to 2018 before moving to United Broadcasting owned CW affiliate [[WEVI-FTV|WEVI]].
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==== ''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'' (2009-2013) ====
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Zinn has a third running, successful [[wikipedia:adult animation|adult]] [[wikipedia:animated sitcom|animated series]] in ''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'' which was in production from 2009 to 2013. To date along with ''Amanda & Elisa'', ''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'' are Zinn's animated series to have suffered an official cancellation.
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''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'' was first shown in April 2009, three months after the [[wikipedia:Super Bowl XIV|the Indianapolis Colts' loss]] to the [[wikipedia:New Orleans Saints|Saints]] debuting with the episode "[[Pilot (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Pilot]]", which Zinn co-wrote. Zinn has described the initial seasons of ''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'' as being ''INNewsCenter'', likening [[wikipedia:title role|title character]] [[Kendra Kendall (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Kendra Kendall]]'s originally [[wikipedia:bigotry|bigoted]] persona after a sex change. Zinn has also stated that her inspiration to create ''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'' derived from her experience of never seeing to anchormen anchor a newscast after the main female anchor takes the day off for any reason from 1987 until 2009, yet does not mind watching two anchorwomen on a tellevision news broadcast.<ref>"Ava Zinn, Hoosier Anchorwoman Interview"].</ref>  Zinn was described as having difficulty understanding the series in its early going; however, she heavily warmed up to the series after its early seasons once he felt the show truly came into its own. Her fellow co-creators have sensed this through Zinn's greatly increased attention to the series after its early seasons. Zinn has also revealed she is a ''Hoosier Anchorwoman!'' fan herself. She has taken note of the positive reaction to the "[[Joyce (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Joyce]]" character by fans via her Twitter.
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The show focuses on the Kendall family: Kendra Kendall, the endangering, [[wikt: dog-eat-dog|dog-eat-dog]], rash and inconsiderate head of the household. She has an exaggeratedly large chin and feminine manner about her. As the family's [[wikipedia:breadwinner model|breadwinner]], she works as a news anchor/reporter  and was initially portrayed in the series as an old-fashioned conservative bigot but has since grown out of these traits ; Kendra's [[wikt: paradox|paradoxically]] moralistic yet simultaneously inappropriate, corrupt wife, [[Miles Kendall (Hoosier Anchorwoman!|Miles]]; and their three children, new-age hippie daughter [[Samantha Kendall (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Samantha]], daughter [[Allison Kendall (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Allison]] and nerdy daughter [[Jackie Kendall (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Jackie]]. Accompanying the Kendall family are three additional main characters, two of which belong to non-human species: zany, shocking, blithely cruel and rascally cow [[Joyce (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Joyce]], who's [[Joyce (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)#Disguises and alter egos|full of disguises/alter egos]] and has few if any limits on her behaviors. She was rescued by Kendra from a slaughterhouse; [[Kayla (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Kayla]], the woman-in-a-snake-body pet. Kayla's unenviable situation came about from the brain of an Russian [[wikipedia:Olympics|Olympic]] gymnist being shrunk and transplanted into a snake body; and [[Alec Dailey (Hoosier Anchorwoman!)|Alec Dailey]], Samantha's boyfriend turned "whipped" husband, known for his homosexual infatuation with Samantha's mom, Miles.
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The series ended on May 19, 2013, with a total of 4 seasons and 88 episodes, and the character of Kendra moved to ''Queen of the Willis'' in the episode ''[[The Girls Are Back in Quillsville]]''.
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====''The Souzas''====
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Zinn developed a ''Queen of the Willis'' spin-off called ''The Souzas'', which focuses on the character of [[Deanna Willis]] and her wife, Brandi, and their family. The idea for the show originated from a suggestion by ''Queen of the Willis'' writer and voice of Deanna, [[Rachael Passalt]].
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This is the only animated series created by Zinn that does not have her voicing the [[Deanna Willis|main character]]. Zinn did, however, play the character Addison the Tiger until season 3. [[Adella Watts]] voiced Addison from season 4 onwards.
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====''Caprice & Ella''====
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In 2021, Zinn began producing the comedy-drama series ''[[Caprice & Ella]]'', in which she also stars. The series premiered during the on February 27, 2021, the day after adopting her cat Caprice Haley Zinn from the Allen County SPCA (now Humane Fort Wayne). Her dog, Gabriella Lauren "Ella" Zinn joined the cast in March 2021.
  
 
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