| Joe Kubert 1926, comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. |
| Shad Petosky 1974, comics author, designer, and television animator. He, Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon formed the comic art studio Big Time Attic in the fall of 2004. They illustrated the graphic novel Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards for science writer Jim Ottaviani. They are currently working on a genetics graphic novel with writer Mark Schultz for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Top 10. |
| William Stout 1949, fantasy artist and illustrator, Stout began his professional career as an illustrator for comic books and graphic novels, with his first job coming in 1968 with the cover for the first issue of the pulp magazine Coven 13. In 1971 he worked as Russ Manning's assistant on Manning's Tarzan of the Apes Sunday and daily newspaper comic strips. In 1972, Stout worked for Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder on Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny". In 1973 Stout began his relationship with the Firesign Theatre, where he gained international notoriety for his numerous bootleg record album covers. From 1976 to 1977 Stout worked as art director for the rock magazine Bomp! During this time, he became one of the first American contributors to Heavy Metal magazine. In 1977 Stout painted his first movie poster, for Ralph Bakshi's film Wizards. During his career, Stout has worked on the advertising for over 120 films. In 1978, with Buck Rogers, Stout began his film production design career. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stout and fellow illustrator Richard Hescox ran a Los Angeles art studio, working on such projects as the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark and pop singer Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video. Fellow cartoonist Dave Stevens worked for a time in the same studio. Stout has worked on over thirty feature films, including both Conan films, First Blood, The Hitcher, and Invaders From Mars. In 1985, with Return of the Living Dead, Stout became the youngest production designer in film history. He also production designed the Masters of the Universe film. Stout wrote The Warrior and the Sorceress for Roger Corman, and a never-produced dinosaur feature for Jim Henson. For Industrial Light & Magic in 1996, he designed "Edgar" (the big bug in Men in Black). Stout was the key character designer for the computer-animated feature Dinosaur (released in 2000). Stout worked as the conceptual designer for The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, and key designer for Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. Recent film work includes Christopher Nolan's film The Prestige and creature design for Frank Darabont's & Stephen King's The Mist. He is slated to work on del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness as well as a proposed John Carter of Mars film. In 1981 Bantam Books published Stout's landmark masterwork The Dinosaurs: A Fantastic New View of a Lost Era (recently updated and re-published as The New Dinosaurs). In 1983, Stout was among those who illustrated Ray Bradbury's Dinosaur Tales. In 1984 he illustrated The Little Blue Brontosaurus, which was a 1984 Children's Choice Award recipient and the basis for the 1988 animated feature The Land Before Time. In 1986, as a result of his paleontological reconstruction work, eleven Stout paintings were selected for inclusion in the traveling exhibition "Dinosaurs Past and Present," an important group show depicting the history of paleoart. Author Michael Crichton acknowledged Stout's work as an inspiration for his 1990 book Jurassic Park. In 1993, Universal Cartoon Studios chose Stout to design a prime-time animated series of Jurassic Park. Also in 1993 Comic Images released William Stout's Lost Worlds, the first of three trading card sets. In January 1989, Stout traveled to Antarctica and Patagonia. His experiences there eventually resulted in the one-man show "Dinosaurs, Penguins and Whales — The Wildlife of Antarctica. In 2001, Stout illustrated Richard Matheson's first children's book, Abu & The 7 Marvels, which won many awards. The Stout-illustrated book The Emerald Wand of Oz was released in 2005, followed by Trouble Under Oz in 2006. Stout's own publishing company, Terra Nova Press, has published thirty-four books on art and the history of art. |
| Harry Townes 1914, actor, Wilkins / Dr. Platan - Tales of Tomorrow (2 episodes, 1951-1952), Brigadier General Towne - Steve Canyon (1 episode, "Operation Towline", 1958), Jim Benedict - Destination Space (1959) (TV), Dr. William Thyssen - Men Into Space (1 episode, "Lost Missile", 1959), Dr. Alexander Slawson / Gerald Simms - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (2 episodes, 1959-1960), Arch Hammer / Henry Ritchie - Twilight Zone (2 episodes, 1960-1961), Dr. Clifford Scott - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "O.B.I.T.", 1963), Reger - Star Trek (1 episode, "The Return of the Archons", 1967), Will Hale - The Invaders (1 episode, "Valley of the Shadow", 1967), Captain Bates - Tarzan (2 episodes, 1967), Roy Adkins - The Immortal (1 episode, "The Return", 1970), Dr. Malthus - Planet of the Apes (1 episode, "The Interrogation", 1974), Marcus - Ark II (1 episode, "Omega", 1976), The Guardian - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1 episode, "The Guardians", 1981), Professor Garth - Voyagers! (1 episode, "The Trial of Phineas Bogg", 1983). |
| Sarah Rayne 1987, actress, Hannah - Toy Story (1995) (voice), Elani - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Innocence", 1996), Young Kayley - The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot (1998) (voice). |
| June Foray 1917, voice actress, voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters (particularly Lucifer from Cinderella, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Witch Hazel, Granny, Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick). Her career has encompassed radio, theatrical shorts, feature films, television, record albums (particularly with Stan Freberg), video games, talking toys and other media. Foray was also one of the founding members of ASIFA-Hollywood, the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation. Foray worked for Hanna-Barbera, including The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Jetsons and many others. She has done extensive voice acting for Stan Freberg's commercials, albums and 1957 radio series, memorably as secretary to the werewolf advertising executive. Foray has also appeared in several Rankin/Bass TV specials in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably as the original voice of the young girl, Karen, in the TV special, Frosty the Snowman. Most recognizable, though, is her work for Jay Ward: she played nearly every female on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, including Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick, as well as male lead character Rocket J. Squirrel (a.k.a. Rocky Squirrel). Foray also voiced Magica De Spell and Ma Beagle in the televised cartoon DuckTales. Most significantly in the later part of her career, she had a leading role voicing Grammi Gummi on the television series, Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears. Foray is one among the few surviving voice artists from the Golden Age of theatrical cartoons. She remains active to this day, with roles in recent animated films, such as Mulan (as Grandmother Fa) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Around 2003, she was a special guest star in an episode of the Powerpuff Girls. She is also known for voicing Wheezy, one of the toon patrol weasels in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In October 2006, she portrayed Susan B. Anthony on three episodes of the podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. Foray was also the voice of Queen Tabitha in the Don Bluth film, Thumbelina. Foray appeared on camera in a major role only once, in Sabaka as a high priestess of a fire cult. She also appeared on camera in an episode of Green Acres as a Mexican telephone operator. In 1991, she provided her voice as the sock-puppet talk-show-host Scary Mary on the television show Married With Children. She played gag cameos in both 1992's Boris & Natasha and 2000's The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Another on-camera appearance was in the 1984 TV sitcom The Duck Factory. In 2000, Foray reprised her role as Rocky the Flying Squirrel in Universal Pictures' live-action/CGI animated film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Foray voiced the wife of the man getting dunked ("Don't tell him, Carlos!") in Pirates of the Caribbean. In November 2009, Foray appeared twice on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: in one episode as Ruth, a pie-maker trapped in Bubbie's stomach, and in another episode as Kelly, a young boy having a birthday party and as Kelly's Mom and Captain K'Nuckles' kindergarten teacher. In 2011, Foray reprised her role as Granny in Cartoon Network's new series, The Looney Tunes Show. |
