Craig Clark

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Craig Clark, (born 1960, Santa Monica, California) is an American animator, an art rock, darkwave musician (Chorus of Souls on Fluxus Records), a comic book artist (Nemesister and Astrothrill), and an album cover artist (The Nymphs on Geffen Records). Clark began his career at the age of 8, when he starred in an educational film directed by voice actor Shep Menken in 1968. At age 14, he was discovered by animators Corny Cole (Looney Tunes) and Duane Crowther (Yellow Submarine), and was mentored by longtime Disney animator Amby Paliwoda. Clark was one of the original animation and layout artists on the first three seasons of The Simpsons, and has gone on to animate on various other animated projects such as several Peanuts TV specials for Bill Melendez productions, Kellogs cereal commercials, and many special effects feature films such as, Forrest Gump, The Mask, Godzilla, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Big Trouble in Little China, and Poltergiest II: The Other Side.

Craig recently has developed and produced The Kustomonsters animated show for the web through Cheeky Entertainment.

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