MISTER CARTOON
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mister Cartoon began his career as a graffiti artist in the 1980s. Cartoon went on to gain notoriety for his unique tattoos, album cover designs, logos, advertisements and custom low rider car murals. His richly detailed, hand-rendered designs are inspired by the style of tattoos that originated in the hard streets of 1970s Los Angeles. Cartoon's art embodies the true sole of Los Angeles street culture and has taken the fine line, black and grey tattoo culture to the masses. Cartoon's unique position within the art world has helped to bridge the gap between corporate America and hardcore Los Angeles street culture.

GARY PANTER
Possibly the most influential graphic artist of his generation, a fact acknowledged by the Chrysler Design award he received in 2000, Gary Panter has been everything from an underground cartoonist to an interior designer (for a children's playroom inside the Philippe Starck-designed Paramount Hotel in New York) to an internet animator (his Pink Donkey and the Fly series can be seen online at Cartoon Network's website). He is also the creator of Jimbo, a post-nuclear punk-rock cartoon character whose adventures were first chronicled as a comic strip in the 70s LA hardcore-punk paper Slash and later in RAW Magazine. Although the inspiration for Jimbo was partly rooted in the 60s underground comix movement, other influences such as Japanese monster movies, cheap commercial packaging, the work of Marvel comics artist Jack Kirby, Mothers of Invention house artist Cal Schenkel and the writing of cult science fiction author Philip K. Dick leaked into the project. This all gave Jimbo a startlingly fresh look that was subliminally familiar yet defiantly oddball.

JOHN POUND
John Pound's commissioned artworks include paintings for humor trading cards, comic book covers, fantasy book covers, art prints, skateboards and magazine illustrations for MAD, BLAB!, Business Week and HomePC. He painted many Garbage Pail Kids® for Topps®, art for Wacky Packages®, Mars Attacks®, Howard the Duck and Animaniacs®. His art was featured in JUXTAPOZ magazine issue #1.