Known for being ridiculous, mouthy, and tactless;
Liz busies herself with all kinds of super things.
Her favorites among them are painting, smothering
her dog, and being extra Armenian. Some of her
animation credits include: Color Supervisor & BG Painter
(Venture Bros., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Designer
(Pinky Dinky Doo, Friday, and a lot of freelance stuff),
and Character/Props Color Supervisor (MTV's Downtown).
Liz owes the perpetuation of Too Art for TV to the help
of her generous friends.
www.lizartinian.com

The daughter of an artist and a writer, Amanda
Baehr Fuller grew up expressing the pain, boredom,
embarrassment and exhilaration of her everyday life
through her journals and drawings. Years later she
still does, through her comic book stories, animation,
and illustrations. She has worked for Curious Pictures,
MTV Animation, Noodlesoup Productions, and Scholastic
on such productions as Cartoon Network's Sheep in
the Big City, Codename: Kids Next Door, MTV's Daria,
The Venture Bros., Maya and Miguel, and Clifford's
Puppy Days. Amanda has had her comics included
in the critically acclaimed Monkeysuit anthologies,
and her first comic, which she animated, became an
award-winning film for the Oxygen Network.
Her line of greeting cards can be found in stores
throughout Manhattan.
www.MamaRobot.com

Jennifer Batinich is a Seattle born New Yorker.
In 2003, she got her BFA in animation from the
School of Visual Arts and proceeded to enter
the world of animation in New York.
Jennifer's career started at World Leaders Entertainment,
where she has worked as director on the first and second
seasons of The Venture Bros., Cartoon Network's animated
series for adults. Jennifer has also worked as a storyboard
artist for Scholastic's animated series, Clifford's Puppy Days,
and will return to The Venture Bros. this summer after
finishing direction on WLE's upcoming children's
show, Supernormal.

Bob MacNeil works for companies such as
Cartoon Network, Microsoft, Good Humor-Breyers,
Nickelodeon, Kellogg's, Hershey, Toys R Us and Hasbro.
His work can be seen on various X-Box games, season 2
of The Venture Brothers, Popsicle ice cream packages,
Rice Krispie Treat characters and some of your favorite
classic board games.

Standing nearly five foot eight and one half inches
high, Jeff Buckland has long labored in the vineyards
of funny ha-ha children's television. Raised from
birth by feral cats, Mr. Buckland grew up to direct PB&J Otter,
Stanley, Kenny the Shark, and Pinky Dinky Doo. He lives
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, child,
and ukulele. He enjoys both apple and key lime pie, though
never at the same meal.

Jared Deal works as a freelance animator/designer
doing everything from animated shorts to music videos
since starting in the industry in '98. Previous clients
include MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network,
Curious Pictures, Spike TV, Funny Garbage and Augenblick
Studios. Jared currently has two of his own cartoons in
development: Carneys with Atomic Cartoons and Flakes
with Studio B Productions.
www.jareddeal.blogspot.com

Kelly Denato graduated Pratt Institute in 2000, having
majored in Communications Design with a focus in Illustration.
Kelly began her career as an illustrator for Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Magazine. She started animating for Children's Television
Workshop and Cartoon Network online games. She then worked
full time as an animator at Rumpus, a start-up toy and
webisode company.
Kelly later worked as a Character and Background Designer for
Animation Collective including two KOL (AOL Kids) series,
Kung Fu Academy and Princess Natasha, as well as an MTV
pilot Metal Wolf.
Kelly has illustrated a children's book called Ellen's 11-Star
Spectacular Super-Deluxe Hotel for Little Brown Publishing
which came out in June 2006.
Currently living and working in Brooklyn, Kelly is focusing on
painting, character art, and plush toy design.

Christy Karacas studied film and animation at the Rhode
Island School of Design. His student film ‘Space War’ has
been featured in numerous festivals and screenings around the
world and also on MTV’s ‘Cartoon Sushi’. It also won as best
film at the Nashville Independent Film Festival in 1997.
His animated work has been included in numerous screenings
and events around the city including P.S.1’s Marvelous Creatures
program, Deitch Projects Tedious Limbs and recently in Brooklyn
Based Rooftop Films Unspeakable Animation and Walk the Plank
screenings. His short films ‘Space War’ and ‘Barfight’ are part
of the compilation DVD ‘Avoid Eye Contact Vol. 2: Best of NYC
Independent Animation’ which has been part of many festivals and
events including the Annecy and Ottawa International Animation Festivals.
Christy is currently the creator and director of Cartoon Network’s
‘Adult Swim’ block called ‘Superjail’, making artwork, and playing guitar
in the rock band ‘Cheeseburger’.

Marina grew up watching Pink Panther and Tom and
Jerry cartoons, but her real love for animation came
while working at Zagreb Film in Croatia. It was there
that her animation career started, working in production
on independent animation shorts.
After moving to the U.S. in the 90's, Marina worked
as a color artist/supervisor at Ink Tank, Curious Pictures,
Magnet Pictures, and Disney Television Animation. She
helped to establish Noodlesoup Productions (now World
Leaders Ent.) where she is currently working as a creative
director. She lives in the East Village with her fat cat Marko.

Nash Dunnigan has been involved in animation, both TV
and feature, for 13 years. He has worked at many New York
Studios, including Jumbo Pictures, Curious Pictures, and MTV.
Nash was one of the founding artists at Noodlesoup Productions
(now World Leaders Ent.), and worked as an art director for two
years. Nash is now at Blue Sky Studios. He was cinematographer
on Robots and Ice Age, The Meltdown. He also did storyboarding
for Robots. Nash is currently in visual development, and designs
environments for the upcoming 2008 movie Horton Hears a Who.
Recently, Nash was one of the writers/artists of a comic collective
called OOP, Out of Picture, published by Paquet Publishers in
Switzerland. Nash had a show at Gallery Arludik in Paris, France
last month. He's currently working on his second collective book,
due to be published next fall.
www.outofpicture.com

Jonathan Ehrenberg received an MFA from Yale University's
painting program in 1999. Jonathan had a solo exhibition of
his work at the Earl McGrath Gallery in 2001 and was the creative
director of Head Trip, an animated show produced by MTV
Animation. Jonathan is currently teaching drawing at the Parsons
School of Design.

When Chris George was a child he dreamt of becoming a
super famous rock star/painter/physicist. Once, in 1997,
Chris George jumped in front of a moving train, stared down
the barrel of a gun, and embraced his pirate ancestry. Chris George
dislikes fish. Chris George has waking dreams of heroism and
nightmares filled with zombies. Chris George is most likely
a cat person. Chris George likes you. Chris George is a real
life professional artist for hire. Employers include Nickelodeon,
MTV, and Cartoon Network. Chris's most recent contribution to
the world of animation was that of character designer on the
[adult swim] hit show "The Venture Bros." Chris's most recent
exhibition prior to Stay Gold's "Too Art for TV, Too!" was the
"Shady Characters" group show at the Live With Animals gallery
in July 2006. Chris George lives in Astoria New York. He enjoys
J.D. Salinger novels, punk-rock, and Guitar Hero.
www.sneakydreamer.blogspot.com

Marta Maria Jonsdottir has been working as a freelance animator,
in London and Reykjavik, Iceland, since graduating from London
Animation Studio in 2004. She has worked as an animator and
illustrator for game companies (Nintendo Gameboy Advanced
and dvd-kids) and created several TV-adverts for Icelandic
advertising agencies. She was nominated for the Icelandic Music
Awards, 2006 for the best music video, and 2005 for the best
cd-cover design.
In 2000, Marta graduated from Goldsmiths College with an MA
in Fine Art. She has participated in various group exhibitions in
Iceland, Greenland, Netherlands and the UK over the last ten years.
In spring 2006 she had a private show on the west coast of Iceland,
Slœnkar’ki. That same year she participated in an international group
exhibition: Sequences, real time festival in Reykjavik.

kaNO was born in Brooklyn and went to the High School of Art
& Design and the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He makes a living
in the animation industry and freelances as an illustrator. kaNO
uses his experience of 80's and 90's era inner city life as a
foundation for his art. His work mirrors street culture and is
heavily influenced by Hip-Hop.
kaNO got his start as a character layout artist at MTV Animation.
He went on to be a designer, storyboard artist and traditional
animator for Jumbo Pictures, 4kids Ent., Curious Pictures,
Nickelodeon, and Rankin/Bass. He is currently a design director
at World Leaders Entertainment on Supernormal, the animated series.
www.kanokid.com

Rick Lacy has been a resident of NYC for ten years and has worked
extensively in NY animation. Most notable is Rick's work for Adult
Swim's, The Venture Bros.. He has contributed to many facets of the
show with design, layouts and storyboards. Rick is also in the comic
book universe with notable work for Dark Horse Comics, including two
stories for their Clone Wars Adventures series and recently as lead artist
for the Hellboy Animated series. A fan of both mediums, Rick has
embraced his adventures with the utmost excitement.
His labor of love, a project aptly named Labor Days, is a graphic novel
3 years in the making. Recently, Rick and long time collaborator, Phil
Gelatt, signed a contract with Oni Press to publish it. They approach
the venture with a hearty dose of gusto. This is Rick's second time
showcasing his art at the Stay Gold Gallery.
www.ricklacy.blogspot.com

Douglas Lovelace is an artist of the "Visionary-Ecstatic" type. His
influences span the centuries, from extemporaries such as Hiroshige
& Herge to contemporaries Bill Presing & Tom Connor. Much to his
amazement & amusement, he was adopted by the NYC animation
circa 1998. That makes him nine years old in NYC animation years
(roughly 120 human years). He has been utilized as a character
designer & storyboard artist on projects ranging from MTV's Celebrity
Deathmatch to Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. The production team
environment is weirdly familiar & comfortable to him, filling him with
feelings such as "warm & fuzzy", and, occasionally, their dark counterparts
"cold & chilling". He always shoots to do his best, but never better than
his best. Ultimately, art is his religion & only incidentally his profession.
www.chrisis.org

David B. Levy is the author of the best selling book, Your Career
In Animation: How to Survive and Thrive (Allworth Press, 2006).
Levy was episode director for the Noggin Channel' Flash animated
series, Pinky Dinky Doo, and also on the long-running hit, Nick Jr's
Blue's Clues. Most recently, Levy served as the supervising director
of animation for the second season of the Blue's Clues spin-off, Blue's
Room. As an independent filmmaker, he has thus far completed five,
self penned, award winning independent animated films, "Snow Business"
(1998), "Hortonhow" (2000), "The Way The Twig Is Bent..." (2002),
"Scout Says" (2004), and "Stand Clear" (2005). Levy's films have been
broadcast in Norway, Finland, Belgium, Australia and Poland. In addition
to his animation work, Levy is a published author of cartoons for various
publications as well as the illustrator of fifteen children's books in the
United States. Levy has served as President of Asifa-east (the NY chapter
of Asifa International) since September 2000. Hez teaches animation at
Parson's School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, and New York University's
Tish School of the Arts. Levy is currently at work on a second book for
Allworth Press.

Todd K Lown's early interests in skateboarding, snowboarding,
drawing, tattoos, and blowing things up (that were his) eventually
led him to painting on things (that weren't his) and to The University
of Washington. There Todd received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
in 2002.
Todd is currently working as a Production Assistant for 4Kids Productions
on the new animated TV show Viva Pi–ata. He started at 4Kids inking
and coloring for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Todd recently completed an animated short titled Cue the Birds, which
is part of an independent Snowboarding film by the same name.
Other recent accomplishments include a 300 page flip book drawn
during a month in bed. The book was featured in the largest flip book
exhibition in the world at the Kunsthale Dusseldorf and the Belgian Photo
Museum in Antwerp.

Jim Manocchio started his animation career in 1987. Upon being
nominated for an Emmy and a Gold Medallion for a promotional
animation he created for the Florida Marlins, Jim was offered a
position at ITV "South Florida PBS". At that time he also created
an animation/live-action children's show called On The Move With
Virgil where he designed, built, and acted in a 7 foot tall alligator
costume. Jim moved to LA to work on The Pebble And The Penguin
as an inbetweener. For 9 years Jim worked at Warner Brothers, Disney,
Sony Pictures, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network on Men In Black,
Histeria, Lady and the Tramp II and Alvin and the Chipmunks, among
many others. In 2001 Jim moved to NYC and worked at MTV, Nickelodeon,
Curious Pictures, DMA, Wachtenheim Marianetti, and VH1. He art directed
VH1's ILL-ustrated and MTV's Friday, the animated seres.
www.jimmynock.blogspot.com

A native of the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, Miguel Martinez-Joffre
came to New York in 1984 to pursue his studies in animation at the
School of Visual Arts. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
in 1988, Miguel quickly established himself as a well respected animator,
layout artist and animation director. His past projects include Cartoon
Network's The Venture Bros., MTV's Beavis and Butthead, The Maxx,
Disney's Doug, PB and J Otter and Sabrina. Miguel is also a Managing
Editor and contributor to the well acclaimed anthology comic book
series Monkeysuit.
He is currently an Art Director at World Leaders Entertainment.

Richard Mather grew up in Austin, Texas where he triumphantly dropped
out of high school and became a drunk. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
He likes people, getting to know people and cute things like puppies.
He has worked for Curious pictures, HBO, MTV, Spike TV, Nick digital and
The Weather Channel. He has worked on Daria, Downtown, and has since
started is own company, Richard Mather Studio. He's created his own show
called Magical Realm, which is currently running on MTV Overdrive, in addition
to making a bunch of interstitials for MTV, MTV2 and MTV U. Richard has won
numerous awards including a nomination for a Gold Pencil Award from the
One Show Awards and was included in Creativity 34 for excellence in design.

Jessica Milazzo graduated with a post graduate degree in Character
Animation from Central St Martin's School of Art and Design in 2004.
She was an animator on Pinky Dinky Doo for Cartoon Pizza, and Punk
Rock Angel Girl for Nick. She also co-directed an animated short for
the museum at Mount Vernon. She is currently Flash Supervisor for the
upcoming PBS series, Nate the Great.
Jessica dabbles in comics, though not as often as she would like. Her
comic Box Kitten was shown at last year's Too Art for TV! exhibition at
Stay Gold Gallery, Brooklyn.
www.jessicamilazzo.com

Dagan Moriarty was born and raised in New York (on the MEAN
streets of Long Island) where he often dreamed of becoming an
animator. He finally grew up (kinda) and has been working in
Animation for the past 9 years. He has spent time at studios in
California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and FINALLY came home to
New York, where he has worked on lots of television shows for the
likes of Noggin, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Disney.
Dagan enjoys splitting his time between character design and animation,
but is currently a lead Animator for the Nickelodeon show Kappa Mikey.
He is also a freelance designer for his friends at Renegade Animation
and FatKat Studios.

Liam Murray is an animator of the pencil and paper variety.
He has been influenced by a wide range of artists from Egon
Schiele to Freddy Moore to Glen Keane.
Liam studied traditional animation as a way to escape the cut
throat work of cow maintenance in Ireland. He proceeded to
move across the pond to New York where he started his career
as an illustrator for Estee Lauder and Sean John. He then moved
on to work for the Animation Collective where his skills were
utilized in layout and animation on such shows as Skwod and
Kappa Mikey. He is currently a freelance concept artist for
Microsoft's ad campaigns. He also storyboards for many live action
and animation pitches.
He still gets a thrill whenever he realizes the old adage, "Do what
you love and you will never work a day in your life" is true.
www.scribblejunkie.blogspot.com

Jackson Publick is the creator of Adult Swim's popular
"The Venture Bros." animated television series. Before finding it
necessary to make up a fake name for himself, he was a head writer
for the comic book, animated and live action incarnations of The Tick
and he openly storyboarded for such animated fare as The King of
the Hill, Doug, and Sheep in the Big City. He was also a contributing
editor for the Monkeysuit comic book anthology series until everyone
got sick of making it.
www.jacksonpublick.livejournal.com

Reject is in his 2nd season as an animator for Disney's Little Einstein
produced by Curious Pictures.
He has been a character designer and animater for Comedy Central,
Volkswagon, Burger King and a bunch of web animation.
Reject has exhibited work in a few shows, most recently Shady
Characters at the Live With Animals Gallery in Brooklyn.
He lives happily in Brooklyn with his girlfriend and their 3 1/2 cats.

Kim Rygiel is an Illustrator, Graphic Designer, and all around Crafter.
Graduating with a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design,
she began her career in animation at MTV studios working on Daria,
Head Trip and Spy Groove. Changing pace, moved to Graphic Design
working for numerous websites including gURL.com, Seventeen, Teenmag.com
and most recently iVillage.com. KimÕs recent animation work includes
designing backgrounds for the Sesame Workshop/Cartoon Pizza co-production
of Pinky Dinky Doo.
Kim runs a small business, riceandweetzie.com. Her knitted "necknooshes" have
been featured on Treehugger.com and in the Martha Stewart publication
Body + Soul. Kim's illustrations have appeared in Seventeen magazine,
the 2002 gURL minimag "Deal With It!", on iVillage.com, Cosmogirl.com,
FlipFlopTrunkshow.com and Teenmag.com.
www.papericecream.com

Pammy Salmon is a freelance writer for children's animated television.
She has written for shows appearing on PBS, Noggin, and The Disney
Channel, and has penned several development projects for animation
houses around the country. She started her animation career at Cartoon
Pizza, Inc. where she served as Production Manager on JoJo's Circus. She
draws visual inspiration from charcoal and pencil still-life and life-drawings.

Tim Shankweiler, a graduate of Sheridan College's Classical Animation
program, came to the U.S. in 2000. He started in layout at MTV (Daria) in
NYC. Since then he's worked at various studios in most facets of animation.
He currently animates for Curious Pictures (Little Einstein). Other Credits include:
Background artist on MTV'sFriday, Disney's Katbot, Scholastic's Clifford's
Puppy Days, BG Style development on World Leaders / Granada co-production
Supernormal, Comedy Central's Shorties Watchin Shorties, Miramax's Duplex and
My Baby's Daddy. He's contributed (Animation, Character Design, Background
Design, Storyboards) to numerous other productions, including shorts, video
games, pitch bibles, features, toy designs, commercials, books, logos, and pilots.
He's been exhibiting his paintings for 6 years at coffee shops and galleries in NYC.
www.timshankweiler.com

PeeDee Shindell paints representations of imaginative biology, alien
physiognomy and speculative zoology. Strange subjects and dark
mindscapes are his long time obsessions, as are pencil drawings of all
kinds which are high in detail. PeeDeeÕs desire is to visually externalize
the internal.
PeeDeeÕs inspiration begins in old alchemy textbooks and can span many
sources, including modern yoga catalogues. As his subject takes shape,
his pencil sketches are slowly built upon with watercolor. PeeDee searches
for a translucent, otherworldly feeling to appear on his paper. His pieces
are all brought to completion on 300 ply watercolor paper.
www.drpeedee.com

Justin Simonich was born and raised in Western Massachusetts
where he took an early liking to art, which he expressed by drawing
all over the walls of his parents' house. He pursued his love of art
further by studying at the University of Massachusetts, followed by
Vancouver Film School, where he honed his animation skills.
Following his travels abroad, Justin settled in Boston, MA, working
on shows for Cartoon Network and B.E.T. In NYC, Justin has worked
on projects for Nickelodeon, Noggin, and MTV networks, doing
everything from storyboarding, layout, character design, creating
animatics, to finished animation. Today Justin continues to create
short films and make his way around the festival circuit.
www.justinsimonich.com

Alex gets his bread and butter from freelance character animation.
He works for a number of London production companies. He's
currently working at CHASE Animation London on Kid Samurai, an
animated series.
This past year has seen him shooting off to deepest East Germany
and the Czech Republic to glean special animformation from the very
lips of the Masters of European animation.
Alex continues to work for the BBC and Cartoon Network on various
projects. He has also animated on independent films, in 2005 on Damian
Gascoigne's Careful (winner of London Critics Award, BAA short film award
runner up) and on John Williams' Hibernation 2005 (Edinburgh Film Festival
winner - Best Short Film).
To date Alex has produced 2 solo short films, Robot Gimme Love 954
(2004) and Beast Abroad (2006).
www.alegsmeeth.com

Kate Tyler graduated Pratt Institute in 2004 with a BFA in illustration.
She started her career in animation at Cartoon Pizza, the New York based
animation studio responsible for Disney's Doug, and JoJo's Circus. It is
there that Kate headed the prop and character color department for the
animated series Pinky Dinky Doo, a show for preschoolers airing internationally.
Kate moved on to designing props and backgrounds for the series
The Wonder Pets! at Little Airplane Productions.

Martin Wittig has been working in the animation industry for 10 years.
He attended The School of Visual Arts, and later became a Disney Feature
Film trainee. MartinÕs clients include Cartoon Network, MTV, World Leaders
Entertainment, Disney TV, Nickelodeon, and Discovery Kids. He recently
showed work in the Shady Characters Group Art Show (Brooklyn, NY).
www.martinwittig.blogspot.com

Lulu has graced the NYC animation scene for over a decade, working on
such shows as Brand Spanking New Doug, Stanley, and Pinky Dinky Doo.
She has been a cel painter, designer, and storyboard artist but is best
known for her firm yet fluid inkingÊand roof-top parties. However, she
maintained an interest in portraiture in her attempts toÊmaster a Roliflex
camera. Lulu retired from animation in 2006 and is currently studyingÊat
Cardozo Law School, where no one greets her with ululations.