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| Jim MacQuarrie, Bill Morrison, Steve Greenberg, and Pat McGreal. | Photo by David Folkman. |
President Pat McGreal
Pat McGreal stumbled into a second career as a full time comics writer in the early 1990's. Prior to that, he eked out a living as an actor and founding member of THE RIOT ACT, a sketch comedy group that extensively played the L.A.'80's club scene and toured colleges and universities all over the United States.
Then, in 1991, his lifelong dream of working in comics was realized when he simultaneously made in-roads with a Danish publisher, Egmont Comic Creations, and several American companies.
Since that time, he has written literally hundreds of DONALD DUCK and MICKEY MOUSE comic stories for Egmont, which publishes and distributes Disney material to more than thirty countries throughout Europe, the Middle-East and Asia. In 1997, Pat's wife, Carol, joined him as a full time collaborator. Together, they continue to put the iconic rodent and bad-tempered duck through their paces.
Pat has also written many superhero and adventure comic books featuring such classic characters as the FLASH, HAWKMAN, JUDGE DREDD, JUSTICE LEAGUE, INDIANA JONES, TARZAN, CAPTAIN MARVEL, MARTIAN MANHUNTER and FIGHTING AMERICAN.
Additionally, he is the author of several original graphic novels from DC/Vertigo, including I PAPARAZZI, VEILS, and CHIAROSCURO: THE PRIVATE LIVES OF LEONARDO DA VINCI (for which he received an Eisner Award nomination).
Pat joined CAPS in 1992, and served on the Board as President from '94 thru '95. It’s taken him all these years to work up the nerve to have another go at it...
Vice-President Bill Morrison
SBill Morrison started his career in Detroit Michigan as a technical illustrator, but what he really wanted to do was draw cartoons. When Bill decided that he had drawn his last diesel fuel pump, he moved to Southern California with his wife and two cats. He began working immediately in motion picture advertising which eventually lead to the opportunity to draw and paint a whole slew of movie posters for Walt Disney. Included in that lengthy list are The Little Mermaid, Bambi, Peter Pan, Rollercoaster Rabbit, and The Jungle Book.
In 1990, Bill was recruited by Twentieth Century Fox’s licensing and merchandising department to draw The Simpsons for nearly all of the T-shirts, video games, posters, toy packaging, etc. which was the fuel of 90’s Simpsonmania, and he was occasionally asked to create designs for the TV show itself when Film Roman was hard up for designers. He also contributed greatly to Matt Groening’s publishing endeavors with artwork for Simpsons books and calendars. When Matt decided to start a comic book company, Bill was hired on as art director of Bongo Comics and drew the very first Simpsons comic story. He received an Eisner Award for his contribution to Simpsons Comics #1 and has had a hand in every Bongo Comic to date, either writing, pencilling, inking or supervising.
In 1997, Matt Groening went into pre-production on his next show, Futurama. Bill helped out with character design, and when the show began full production, he was brought on board as art director.
In addition to his work on The Simpsons and Futurama, Bill has writ ten and drawn his own comic book series; the four-time Eisner Award-nominated Roswell, Little Green Man and co-created the comic book series Heroes Anonymous.
His current creative obsession is Lady Robotika, which he is co-creating with his friend and writing partner, Jane Wiedlin.
Bill has served CAPS in the past, both as Vice President and as President, respectively.
Treasurer Jim MacQuarrie
On a chilly gray October morning, one year after Sputnik was launched and four months before Buddy Holly died, Jim MacQuarrie was born, the second son of the guy who ran the Tilt-a-Whirl at the carnival. A paying job drawing cartoons for the Los Angeles Kings booster club at age 14 convinced him that this art stuff was an effective way to avoid working for a living and turned his attention away from his previous career of vandalizing vending machines. Several years of well-deserved obscurity followed, during which he designed patches for outlaw biker gangs, sculpted little clay bunny rabbits for craft shops, twisted balloon animals at birthday parties, and appeared onstage as a killer pygmy, a dinosaur and a British housemaid. After a brief stint creating t-shirt designs for Corona Beer, he moved on to such projects as illustrating the Hooked on Phonics reading program. His experience includes publication and packaging design, telemarketing (selling fraudulent investments), coloring comic books, website design, dressing in a chicken suit, photo retouching, and airbrush painting. He has never learned to juggle. Jim carries a "Get Out of Jail Free" card in his wallet in case he is ever arrested. He can't whistle, but he has correctly used the word "encephaloplegia" in a sentence. Jim has been caller number nine and won the concert tickets. He is a Wilton-certified cake decorator, archery instructor and former homeless person. He has no tattoos, and his lifelong ambition is to be a curmudgeon.
Secretary Steve Greenberg
Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist currently frelancing to LAObserved.com, the alt-weekly Ventura County Reporter, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and various websites. He worked as an editorial cartonist and artist at the Ventura County Star, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Marin Independent Journal and the Daily News of Los Angeles, and was contributing cartoonist for Editor & Publisher magazine. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, MAD Magazine and in seventy books, and has won awards nearly ever year of his career, including runner-up in the 2008 Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition (behind the year's Pulitzer winner), citations in the 2006 and 2007 United Nations Ranan Lurie Cartoon Competitions, and Grand Prize in the 1999 Homer Davenport contest.