Rosearik Rikki Simons

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Rosearik Rikki Simons in 2006

Rosearik Rikki Simons AKA Rikki Simons (born September 8, 1970 in Fontana, California), is an American voice actor, writer, graphic novelist, and artist.

He is known as the voice of the robot GIR on Invader ZIM, the writer and co-artist of the graphic novel series ShutterBox (published by Tokyopop; 6 volumes, of which 3 are completed), Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check! (2 volumes, published in color originally by Sirius Entertainment and then republished in black and white by Tokyopop), and the illustrated novel Ranklechick and His Three-Legged Cat (self-published through Lulu.com). He also co-created and wrote the Robotech: Clone comic series.

In addition to his graphic novel and novel work, Simons also paints backgrounds for animation, including Invader ZIM and Jackie Chan Adventures. He painted both issues of Jhonen Vasquez’s comic I Feel Sick.

He works with his partner and wife, the illustrator Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons. Together they are Studio Tavicat.

Rikki is a frequent guest panelist on the video game and geek culture podcast, The Weekly Geek.

[edit] Catch phrase popularization

Simons is probably best known for singing the Invader ZIM song known as "The Doom Song". Many of his popular lines from Invader Zim were re-mixed into the main theme by the electro group known as the Bass Kittens, which gained some degree of popularity.

[edit] Trivia

The Voices of Zim interview on Disc 2 of the Invader Zim Volume 1 DVD had Rikki talking about his roles as Gir and Bloaty. He was the first on the interview to get a squeaky moose.