Maxwell Atoms

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Maxwell Atoms (birth name: Adam Burton) is an American animator, writer and voice actor. He is the creator of Cartoon Network's animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne. Before he started working on own series, he was an intern at Film Roman, a freelance artist at Warner Bros. and he also worked on Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. Maxwell got a job at Hanna-Barbera and as a writer and storyboard artist on Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel. He also performs the voice of Jeff the Spider and Piff on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and voiced Cod Commando on Evil Con Carne. Atoms has been recognized several times for innovation and creativity in his work. Maxwell is currently pitching several ideas for networks.

Atoms started drawing when he was two or three years old. According to Atoms, his inspirations in cartooning started in school with surrealism, influenced by monster movies and old Saturday morning cartoons. The fun of cartoons, Atoms has related to interviewers, is that anything is possible in a cartoon, and the only limit is the imagination.

Maxwell grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado and is an animation graduate from the University of The Arts, Philadelphia. He got his first job at Film Roman at 22yrs old.

Maxwell is good friends with fellow animator Tom Warburton, creator of Codename: Kids Next Door. He and Tom have made multiple references to each other's shows and have made a cross-over tv movie, The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door.

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  1. Special internship, Film Roman. University of the Arts. 1996.
  2. Annie nomination (1998)- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production. Cow & Chicken “The Karate Chick”.
  3. Top Pick Cartoons (2001-2). TV Guide.
  4. Comic-Con (2005, 2006 and 2007).
  5. 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, Children's Programming, 2007 - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

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