Tom Root

Tom Root (born September 20, 1973) is an American writer, producer, director and voice actor for Robot Chicken.

Tom Root
Tom Root at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con
Born (1973-09-20) September 20, 1973
Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCentral Michigan University
OccupationWriter, producer, television director, voice actor
Years active2005–present

Early life

Root was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He attended Central Michigan University, graduating with a degree in journalism. While at CMU, Root edited the student newspaper CM Life.

Career

Root was one of the original staffers of ToyFare magazine, and was a staff writer and copy editor for Wizard Entertainment's family of publications.[1] While at ToyFare he was a co-writer of the magazine's 's popular Twisted ToyFare Theatre feature.[2]

Root co-wrote Writers on Comics Scriptwriting, vol. 2, with Andrew Kardon in 2004.[3] He also wrote Archie Comics' 200th issue of Jughead in 2010.[4]

Root and Robot Chicken co-creator Matthew Senreich created the Adult Swim series Titan Maximum which premiered on September 27, 2009.[5] He was a writer on Lucasfilm's Star Wars Detours animated series. Root also wrote The Simpsons' Robot Chicken-style animated opening in 2013.[6]

gollark: The "aliens" in most sci-fi are thinly disguised humans and people don't mind that very much.
gollark: There are probably libraries for it, but I just have an incredibly janky implementation based on weekday numbering.
gollark: It was very simple apart from actually rendering the calendar like that, which was oddly hard.
gollark: I realize now that I forgot to unhardcode the month and year, but whatever.
gollark: https://osmarks.net/stuff/political_opinion_calendar.html

References
  1. MacDonald, Heidi (25 January 2011). "The Boys of Wizard". The Beat.
  2. Twisted Toyfare Theatre: Collector's Edition, vol. 3 (Wizard Entertainment, 2003).
  3. Writers on Comics Scriptwriting (Titan Books, 2004) ISBN 1840238089.
  4. Renaud, Jeffrey. "Robot Chicken's Tom Root (Jug)Heads to Riverdale," Comic Book Resources (Dec. 30, 2009).
  5. Andreeva, Nellie (6 May 2009). "'Robot Chicken' crew sets new series: Adult Swim to launch stop-motion 'Titan' in September". The Hollywood Reporter.
  6. "Robot Chicken Couch Gag". Fox.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013.


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