Steve Purcell

Steven Ross Purcell born July 30 1961 is an American cartoonist animator game designer and voice actor He is the creator of the media franchise Sam Max and received an Eisner Award in 2007 for working on the show The series has expanded to an animated television series and several video games A graduate of the California College of Arts and Craft in San Francisco Purcell began his career creating comic strips for the college newsletter He performed freelance work for Marvel Comics and Fishwrap Productions before publishing his first Sam Max comic in 1987 He was hired by LucasArts as an artist and animator in 1988 and worked on several LucasArts adventure games including the first two Monkey Island games Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Sam Max Hit the Road Purcell collaborated with Nelvana to create a Sam Max television series in 1997 and briefly worked as an animator for Industrial Light Magic after leaving LucasArts At Pixar he cowrote and codirected the 2012 film Brave and developed a miniseries for the Cars franchise Cars on the Road Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Purcell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia