Maxwell Atoms

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Maxwell Atoms (birth name: Adam Burton) is an American animator, the creator of Cartoon Network's animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne. Before he started working on own series, he worked at Film Roman and as a writer and storyboard artist on Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel. He also does the voice of Jeff the Spider and Piff on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Atoms, a graduate of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, has been recognized several times for innovation and creativity in his work.

Atoms started drawing when he was 2 or 3 years old. According to Atoms, his inspirations in cartooning started in school with surrealism, influenced by monster movies and old Saturday morning cartoons. The fun of cartoons, as Atoms has related to interviewers, is that anything is possible in a cartoon, and the only limit is the imagination.

Citations:

1. Special Internship, Film Roman. University of the Arts. 1996.

2. Annie Nomination (1998)- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production. Cow & Chicken “The Karate Chick”.

3. Top Pick Cartoons (2001-2). TV Guide.

4. Comic-Con (2005 & 2006).

5. 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, Children's Programming, 2007 - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

[edit] External Links

• Maxwell Atoms at the Internet Movie Database.
• Maxwell Atoms' blog page