Cooner Biography

Cooner was born in the Lehigh Valley, about an hour north of Philadelphia in eastern Pennsylvania. Cooner Growing up in rural suburbia, he entertained a number of interests including science, computers, cooking, and architecture. Ultimately, though, he was destined to draw cartoons and funny animals.

He's lived in central Florida, the Los Angeles area, and central Texas since then, but currently resides and works in the Bay Area of Northern California.

A random assortment of things to may not know:

He earned a bachelor's degree in Graphic Arts and Advertising Design, with a minor in computer science.
In college he worked on a year-long independent project and wrote a thesis titled Sequential Art and the Use of Anthropomorphic Animal Characters, for which he graduated with Honors.
He was cartoonist for his high school newspaper, editor-in-chief of his college newspaper, promotions manager for his college radio station, and for a time was Layout Editor and Production Manager for a regional business journal.
He has worked on at least one theatrically released film, The Tigger Movie.
His name has appeared on television in type so small and fast it could not be seen by the human eye in shows such as Mickey MouseWorks, House of Mouse, and Dilbert: The Animated Series.
He has been Lead Animator or Art Director on a number of educational computer games, including some of the Jumpstart titles.
As a caricature artist at SeaWorld in Orlando, he drew pictures of people hailing from all over the United States, Canada, Brazil, England, Japan, and many other countries.
He was once asked to draw a guest as Indiana Jones running down a mountain of spaghetti escaping a giant meatball while carrying the Holy Eggplant.
He's storyboarded two films that were never produced.
He once drew a mural in front of hundreds of children and adults while a wind ensemble played Peter and the Wolf behind him.
He once had sushi with Joel Hodgson of MST3K, and Joel paid the bill.
He worked for two years in a tobacco store, and has never smoked in his life.
He worked in a technical support call center for three weeks.
He likes all kinds of international cuisine, but can't stand mushrooms.
He has rescued a dog.

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