Ted Blackman

Art director and visual development artist Ted Blackman might be known for his work on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, but his crotchety gag cartoons have gained fans online. When he was a kid, he proclaimed that he wanted to be a cartoonist. To which his teacher responded, “That’s wonderful, you want to make the world laugh.”

“I never forgot the impact those words had on me,” he says. In Los Angeles, he found his clan in animation “coming together to make the world laugh.” Blackman’s T-shirts and coloring activity books offer plenty to smile about and can be found at his Crotchety Comics shop online.

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