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ABOUT

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CLIFF GALBRAITH

Cliff Galbraith is a man of many talents but has chosen to waste them making comics and other silly images. 

 

At the tender age of 19, he started one of the first screen printing shops in the NYC metro area.  In 1986, he created Shopasaurus and Partyasaurus, followed by hundreds of other Saurus characters that became a worldwide licensing phenomenon.  In 1996, Cliff launched Crucial Comics and the first issue of Rat Bastard, which was optioned by Ron Howard’s Imagine Television in 1999 for a groundbreaking TV series that never aired. In 2004, he returned from Los Angeles to New Jersey to once again take the reigns of his T-shirt company. After three successful years, he fell ill with Lyme disease and had to liquidate the company. After several years of treatment, he launched a small comic event in Asbury Park in a punk rock club. The Asbury Park Comicon grew into a large show at the legendary Asbury Park Convention Hall. It eventually moved to the event to the Meadowlands Exposition Center, where it was rebranded as the East Coast Comicon.  ECC became a wildly successful annual event until it was forced to cancel at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. During the lockdown, Cliff wrote his first novel — a 567-page sci-fi space opera entitled Jagged Worlds -- to be released in 2025. 

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KEVIN ALTIERI
Kevin Altieri is an American television director of animated cartoons. Altieri's directorial works include episodes of C.O.P.S.Batman: The Animated Series, and Stripperella.

Altieri worked on the music video for Pearl Jam's "Do the Evolution".[1]

Altieri directed the five-minute pilot for Rat Bastard, a cartoon based on the Crucial Comics series of the same name; the short was produced by Imagine Entertainment and pitched to UPN in 2000.

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BOB CAMP

Camp started his animation career as a designer for animated series such as ThunderCatsSilverhawksTigerSharks, and several other series produced by Rankin/Bass.[3] He then worked as a designer on The Real Ghostbusters for DiC, and later as a storyboard artist on Tiny Toon Adventures for Warner Bros. Television.[3]

Camp was a co-founder of and director for Spümcø, the animation studio that created The Ren & Stimpy Show.[3] He played a major role in the studio's creative force (storyboarding the entirety of "Stimpy's Invention" himself) until September 21, 1992, when he left to work for Games Productions (a.k.a. Games Animation), the animation studio Nickelodeon initially created to continue work on The Ren and Stimpy Show after Spümcø and co-creator John Kricfalusi had been fired.[3][4] At Games, Camp was promoted to creative director of The Ren and Stimpy Show and supervised the series' production until its conclusion.[3] After Ren & Stimpy ended in 1995, Camp and former Ren & Stimpy writer Jim Gomez began developing a new series for Nickelodeon titled Kid Komet and Galaxy Gal, which was never picked up for a full series.[3]

In the 1980s, Camp worked at Marvel Comics as an illustrator on many comic titles including G.I. JoeCrazy MagazineBizarre AdventuresSavage TalesConan the Barbarian, and The 'Nam.[3] During this time, he also drew the cover art of Jam on Revenge, the 1984 debut album by the Electro-hip hop group Newcleus.

In the 2000s, Camp worked as a storyboard artist on animated feature films such as Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Ice Age: The Meltdown,[3] and also as a director on Robotboy.

Camp currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts[5] in New York City.

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MATT PINFIELD

Matthew Pinfield (born May 28, 1961) is an American television hostdisc jockey, and music executive. He first reached national prominence as a VJ on MTV. He served two stints as the host of the alternative music program 120 Minutes, from 1995 to 1999 on MTV and from 2011 to 2013 on MTV2.[1]

Starting in the early 1980s, he began working as both a radio and club DJ in the New Jersey alternative rock scene, working at WHTG-FM when the station first began broadcasting alternative rock in 1984. He later became music director at the station and won several awards before MTV hired him to host their long-running late-night alternative music show in 1995. Pinfield went on to host a number of other shows on the MTV family of networks, including MTV, MTV2, and VH1. He left MTV in 1999 to host Farmclub.com, a live music show that aired on the USA Network. He served as vice president of A&R and artist development for Columbia Records from 2001 to 2006. He has since worked as a DJ and television host for a number of terrestrial and satellite radio stations and television networks.

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