Rick Remender's accomplishments include producing the cult classic creator-owned graphic novels 'Captain Dingleberry', 'Black Heart Billy', and 'Doll and Creature' as well as having served as an animator and illustrator for many major film studios and comic book companies. In 1995, he joined Don Bluth's team of animators on the animated feature film Anastasia as an EFX Assistant. Remender stayed at Fox animation for 3 years also working on Bartok and Titan A.E. Over the next few years he served as character and/or EFX Assistant on other features such as The Iron Giant and Rocky and Bullwinkle as well as doing commercial animation on The Jolly Green Giant and Willy Wonka Candy. It was during this time in 1999 he began teaching Animation and Storyboard at the Academy of Art college in San Francisco, where he teaches to this day. Remender has also done album covers and graphic design for some of the largest punk labels in the world including Side One Dummy, Fat Wreck Chords and Revelation Records. In 2001 Remender and partners Kieron Dwyer and John Estes completed production on a 12 episode web cartoon called SWINGTOWN for wildbrain.com. The series won second place in it's genre at the World Animation Celebration in 2001. Most of 2002 was spent inking Kieron Dwyer's pencils on a 10 issue run on Marvel's 'Avengers'. Rick's recent works include inking the comic book adaptation of the 'Terminator 3' movie, penciling a four issue 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' comic, writing three new books at Image ('Strange Girl', 'Sea of Red', 'Fear Agent') and another at IDW ('Night Mary') while penciling Bruce Campbell's 'Man With The Screaming Brain' at Dark Horse and storyboarding on the new 007 game at Electronic Arts.
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