cartoonist • animation writer • comic book geek • movie buff • tabletop gamer • toy collector • computer nerd • he/him
Company
Skeleton Crew Media
I am a cartoonist and animation writer. I graduated from Columbia College Chicago where I studied animation production and directed the award-winning animated short film Play Date. I am also the writer & artist of the long-running online comic strip Grimstone. I am a comic book geek, movie buff, tabletop gamer, toy collector, and computer nerd.
I continue to create comic strips while also developing animation concepts to pitch. My most recent project is a comedy series about a group of diverse nerds and their local comic book store called The Quarter Bin.
Official Selection
Play Date
Florida Supercon Geek Film Fest
Miami Beach
2016
Official Selection
Play Date
World Animation Celebration
Culver City, CA
2015
Official Selection
Play Date
River City Film Festival
Ottawa, IL
2015
Best Student Short
Play Date
Wizard World Film Festival - Chicago
Rosemont, IL
2014
Official Selection
Play Date
Chicago Critics Film Festival
Rosemont, IL
2013
CFCA Emerging Filmmakers Award
Play Date
Chicago Film Critics Awards
Rosemont, IL
2013
College
Columbia College Chicago
Film & Video - Computer Animation
20042012
Birth Date
October 9, 1978
Birth City
Hammond, IN
Current City
Glendale, CA
Hometown
Hammond, IN
Height
6’3”
Gender
Male
Eye Color
Brown
Zodiac Sign
Libra
"Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me."
- Kermit the Frog
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
– Walt Disney
"Make good art."
– Neil Gaiman
"Simple is good."
– Jim Henson
"Cartooning will destroy you. It will break your heart."
– Charles M. Schulz
"I don't want something realistic; I want something believable."
– Chuck Jones
"Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent."
– Dr. Seuss
“The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It’s the lack of a deadline.”
– Chris Baty
"If you're worried about getting a job--or keeping one--start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it."
– Bruce Campbell
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
– Carl Sagan
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
– Nikola Tesla
"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."
– Linus Van Pelt
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
– Hamlet
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
- Willy Wonka
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
- Ozzy Osbourne
"When someone asks you if you're a God, you say YES!"
– Winston Zeddemore
"I've never seen anything this beautiful in the entire galaxy. All right, give me the bomb."
– Ultra Magnus
"From the moment you walked into my office I had a feeling I'd kill you in a Hall of Mirrors."
– Dexter Colt
"Bloody hell! My lunch was in that hat! Egg and chips with jam booties!"
– British Sentry
cartoonist • animation writer • comic book geek • movie buff • tabletop gamer • toy collector • computer nerd • he/him
Company
Skeleton Crew Media
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