1. Jozef Szekeres has done work on many Disney sequels, including Aladdin III, The Little Mermaid II, Lady and the Tramp II. Besides being a senior animator, he also sculpted maquettes of the main characters fro each. Mud Fish and Flix Animation are a couple of the companies he has done freelance animation for. He also draws comics in his homeland of Australia, like "Oblagon," "Platnium Grit," and "Greener Pastures." For Sirius Entertainment, he did guest issues of "Safety-Belt Man" and "Dawn: Return of the Goddess." He does comic centerfolds and is very active on the comic con scene. In 1988 he was commissioned to do the mascot for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Szekeres just launched his 16" fashion doll line, and before that, he was a concept designer for the movie "Dark City."
2. Scott Adams entered the world on June 8, 1957. He grew up in Windham, NY, in the Catskill Mountains region. He took the honor of valedictorian of his high school class. He attended college at Oneonto, NY before getting his masters of business at Berkley, CA, and became a certified hypnotist in 1981. He worked at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco from 1979 to 1986, while he was going to school. While working at Pacific Bell, a technology and financial firm, he created "Dilbert," based on his working experiences. "Dilbert" was picked up by United Media in 1989, and Adams kept his day job while drawing the strip. He owns two restaurants in CA.
3. Gary Larson, creator of "The Far Side," was born in Tacoma, WA, on August 14, 1950. He grew up there, working at a record store and playing jazz guitar on the side. He drew his first professional cartoons at age 26 for "Pacific Search." He spent a sort stint at "The Summer News-Review" before moving on to "The Seattle Times." His strip "Nature's Way" was cancelled after several complaints were received. Larson decided to move to California, and "The San Francisco Chronicle" turned "Nature's Way" into "The Far Side," a smashing success. Larson drew until 1988, when he took a 2-year break to play jazz and go visit Africa. He retired from "The Far Side" in 1994 after becoming frustrated with deadlines. He won the Reuben Award twice, in 1990 and 1994.
4. Though Luke Chueh was born in Philadelphia, he spent his childhood in Fresno. He received his BS in Graphic Design from California Polytechnic State University. He got a job as in-house designer/illustrator at the Ernie Ball, Co. During his time there, he won several awards and was published in Print Magazine and Communication Arts. On the side he created and maintained E.XP., a magazine covering the genre of intelligent dance music. Chueh relocated to Los Angeles in 2003, but had trouble securing employment there. Instead he concentrated on painting. After one of his paintings was displayed in the underground show called Cannibal Flower, Chueh hit instant success. Some toys were manufactured based on the cute but misfortunate characters in his work.
5. Michelle Araujo, or Mia, grew up in Los Angeles, CA where she enjoyed animated films, cartoons, drawing, reading, and writing. She developed a love for stories and characters, not only in writing but in art, as well. Araujo graduated in 2007 as valedictorian of Otis College of Art and Design, with her degree in Illustration. She also minored in Creative Writing. Most of her shows take place in pop-surrealist galleries, but she aspires to write and do art fro a series of children's books in the future. Her inspirations vary from fairy tales to performance art.
6. In 1973 Jason Limon was born in San Antonio. When he was fairly small, he would doodle sketches of his surroundings. At San Antonio College, he studied under the Visual arts and Technolgy Center. This gave him the knowledge to start his career in graphic design which spanned 12 years—from 1995 to 2007. He decided to focus on his favorite way to create work—by hand. Now he spends his time making paintings and doing commercial illustrations. His work has been featured in Print, American Illustration, Communication Arts, and Graphis.
7. Jessica Joslin was born in Boston in 1971, where she spent her youth. She was fascinated by dead bugs on window sills. She started to collect them, and her unusual hobby spilled over into collecting other things from nature and combining them with man-made fragments. In 1992 her father mailed her collections to her, and she began to build strange creature from the pieces. Joslin has many skills, including model-making, carpentry, mold-making, sculpting, and machining. Still, her creature consume most of her time.
8. Laruie Lipton is a New York native, but she has lived in Belgium, Holland, France, and Germany, but she prefers the city of London, her current home since 1986. Before she began her world travels, Lipton attended Carnegie-Mellon University, Pennsylvania. She was the first student there to graduate with a Fine Arts Degree in the concentration of Drawing. Her work has been featured in the magazine "Dangerous Ink."
9. Michael Hussar was born in Long Beach, California in 1964. He was an instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, before working at UNLV workshop/lecture. In 2002, he began teaching at the LA Academy of Figurative Art. Two years later he returned to Art Center College. He has illustrated many children's Books, including "Oddly Enough," "A Wizard's Dozen," "A Starfarer's Dozen," and "A Nightmare's Dozen."
10. Todd Schorr was deeply influenced by the pop culture of the 1950s. He watched all manner of TV shows and read National Geographic. This melding of images became his surrealistic work. He was born in New York City, but was raised in Oakland, New Jersey. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and graduated in 1976. He has done album art for ACDC and Illustrations for Time, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucus. He attended the "American Pop Culture Images Today," a conference in Tokyo in 1986, that was also attended by Gary Panter. Schorr now makes his living solely from his paintings.
11. Josh Keyes was born in Tacoma, WA in 1969. He earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before receiving an MFA in painting at Yale. His work has been published in many periodicals. Galleries in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Denver have shown his paintings. However, Keyes himself lives in Oakland, CA.
12. Noah Woods is best known for his children's book "Tom Cat," produced by Random House. "Tom Cat" was named in the top ten picture books of 2004. Woods graduated from Art Center College of Design and UCLA. After his education, he did work for tons of big names, not limited to Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, Time, Coke, Pepsi, UNISEF, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, New York Life, and American Express. Currently living in L.A., he teaches at Art Center, and he does guest lectures at the National Illustration Conference in his home state, and the Visual Communication Speakers Series. He has received gold and silver medals from the Society of Illustrators.
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