ABOUT CARTOONIST KYLE BAKER

Kyle Baker is the greatest cartoonist of all time.

He has bestowed his gifts upon such fortunate institutions as DISNEY, WARNER BROTHERS FEATURE ANIMATION, HBO, DREAMWORKS, CARTOON NETWORK, MARVEL COMICS, DC COMICS, SAATCHI AND SAATCHI, WATSON-GUPTILL, RCA/BMG, RANDOM HOUSE, NICKELODEON MAGAZINE, RUGRATS, SCHOLASTIC GOOSEBUMPS and others.

Baker's current projects include a Graphic Novel biography of President Obama for Harper-Collins.

He's also working on comics and animations for the Vector City Racers online game.

TV AND FILM

Baker was a writer and artist on Disney's PHINEAS AND FERB show, which debuted in 2008.

Baker created storyboards for Cartoon Network's "CLASS OF 3000 CHRISTMAS" in 2007.He was also a featured "guest art director" on an earlier episode of the series.

At Warner Brothers Animation, he wrote and directed LOONEY TUNES theatrical shorts, and wrote for the LOONEY TUNES BACK IN ACTION feature film.

For Marvel Entertainment, he directed the animated music video, "BREAK THE CHAIN", which aired on MTV and BET and featured KRS-ONE as the voice of BIG JOE KRASH. The video was based on the BREAK THE CHAIN comic book, which Baker illustrated, published by Marvel Comics.

Baker also did pre-production character design on SHREK.

He wrote an episode of the HBO show COSMIC SLOP, titled TANG.

BOOKS

Baker has authored fifteen Graphic Novels: YOU ARE HERE, WHY I HATE SATURN, THE COWBOY WALLY SHOW, KING DAVID, I DIE AT MIDNIGHT, UNDERCOVER GENIE, two PLASTIC MAN books, NAT TURNER, THE BAKERS: BABIES & KITTENS, SPECIAL FORCES, CARTOONIST VOLUME 1 & 2 and THE BAKERS: DO THESE TOYS BELONG SOMEWHERE? Publishers include DC Comics/Vertigo, Harry Abrams, Harper-Collins, and Scholastic.

He also published an art instruction manual HOW TO DRAW STUPID through Watson/Guptill.

Baker's cartoons are translated into various languages throughout the world, including Norwegian, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Baker illustrated BIRTH OF A NATION, a graphic novel written by Aaron McGruder & Reginald Hudlin, published by Crown Books, Baker's one of the illustrators of MICHAEL CHABON'S THE ESCAPIST, from Dark Horse Publishing.

Baker co-created TRUTH for Marvel Comics, illustrating the WWII story of the first Black Captain America. The comic book received much media attention, including CNN, NPR, TIME, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and other outlets too numerous to mention

.For Christmas 2006, Dark Horse published JINGLE BELLE MEETS THE BAKERS, written by Paul Dini, with Baker art.

MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS

Baker's cartoons have appeared in such publications as THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, BUSINESSWEEK, ESQUIRE, SPIN, ROLLING STONE, VIBE, THE VILLAGE VOICE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, ESPN, MAD, US, GUITAR WORLD, DETAILS and NATIONAL LAMPOON.

For three years he illustrated the weekly strip "BAD PUBLICITY" in NEW YORK magazine.

He has been awarded the HARVEY AWARD (named for Harvey Kurtzman, the creator of MAD magazine) and the EISNER AWARD (named for Will Eisner, creator of the Graphic Novel). They are considered to be the comic book industry's highest honors.

For more information, and to see examples of Kyle Baker's work, visit WWW.KYLEBAKER.COM