Joe Murray
Joe Murray
Joseph David "Joe" Murrayis an American animator, writer, illustrator, producer, director, and voice actor, best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated series Rocko's Modern Life and the Cartoon Network animated series Camp Lazlo. Born in San Jose, California, Murray was interested in a career in the arts when he was three. He credits his high school art teacher Mark Briggs with teaching him a lot about art. Murray was a political cartoonist for a newspaper, often targeting then...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 May 1961
CountryUnited States of America
This is just the beginning. There are several million tons in the general vicinity (of East Texas).
I fought hard to get this episode on because it dealt with adoption, and how someone feels when they find out who their real parents are.
When you're a cancer survivor, the good thing is that you get checked all the time.
We had an incredible staff, of some of the most talented in the business. Talent with egos that didn't get in the way. We all had the same goals.
I had to catch up with where creative technologies had gone since I worked on the show, did some bohemian painting,and continued research into animation, studying the masters, developing new methods, styles, character studies etc.
Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.
I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.
We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.
Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.
The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.
I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.