- Born
- Birth nameArtie Edward Thomas Jr.
- Nicknames
- Artie "Dotcom"
- Ed Romero
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Artie Romero is an animation producer and director. He founded Everyman Studios in 1973, and renamed the studio ARG! Cartoon Animation in 1994. Under Romero's direction, ARG! has created over 40,000 digital animations for its 700+ clients, and over 15,000 animated GIFs by ARG! are displayed on their official site at ArtieStick.com. During 2005-2006, more than one billion hits were logged by the studio's previous website, Artie.com.
Romero continues to produce and direct animations for films, television, games, apps and the Web at the ARG! studio, now located near Stilwell, Oklahoma. Among his awards and honors, his production of Muyiwa Kayode's Adventures of Turtle Taido was screened on Animation Day at Cannes Film Festival in 2016.
- IMDb mini biography by: Artie Romero
- SpousesConnie Jean Karpowitz(November 29, 2014 - present)Sherry Lee Grundmann(April 17, 1997 - August 10, 2006) (divorced)Sarah Jane Fish(June 15, 1984 - August 15, 1990) (divorced, 3 children)
- CityStar
- Romero's studio website Artie.com received more than one billion hits in a 20-month period in 2005-2006.
- At San Diego Comicon in 1979, Artie Romero spilled beer on Monkey Punch's pants. (Japanese manga artist Kazuhiko Kato).
- Romero was briefly suspended from Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado in January, 1969 for selling copies of his first comic book, Platinum Toad #1, in the hallways of the school.
- Romero was adopted by his stepfather in 1962, and his last name was changed from Thomas to Romero on his birth certificate. At that point the "Junior" in his name was dropped.
- In 2005, Romero redesigned the National Day of Prayer website for President George W. Bush and Shirley Dobson, Chair of The National Day of Prayer Taskforce. Romero's mission was to prevent server crashes that had been a problem in previous years. Romero was successful in keeping the site online.
- Good animation is not produced by machines or software. It is created by people who have studied life drawing for years, and understand how things look and how they move.
- As an animation director and as a studio, we have a whole wall covered with awards. We also have a rejection letter from Saturday Night Live of which we are particularly proud.
- From my high school days in the wild and woolly 1960s, I considered myself a cartoonist and comic book artist. Publishing held a magical appeal for me. Once I was suspended from Mitchell High School for distributing my self-published comic books on campus.
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