J. J. Sedelmaier is an American illustrator, designer, author, and film director/producer. He and his wife Patrice run J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc., an animation/graphic design studio they established in 1990 in White Plains, New York, to create and produce animated television commercials utilizing print illustrators as designers - an approach they continue to this day. He began his career in animation on cartoon television specials such as Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City (1981), The Berenstain Bears' Valentine Special (1982), and Berenstain Bears' Littlest Leaguer (1983). Between 1984 and 1990 Sedelmaier worked with R. O. Blechman at The Ink Tank in New York City. His studio's long form creations, which are often parody-oriented, include animation for Saturday TV Funhouse on Saturday Night Live, the pilot episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, the Tek Jansen series for "The Colbert Report", and a series of interstitial cartoons for the USA/NBC live action series, "Psych", along with a series of live-action/CGI commercials for Alka-Seltzer resurrecting the classic "Speedy Alka-Seltzer" character. Sedelmaier collaborated with Robert Smigel on creating The Ambiguously Gay Duo, The X-Presidents, and the Fun With Real Audio cartoons for SNL. Sedelmaier personally designed the AGD characters, Ace & Gary. Stuart Hill was his collaborator on the Captain Linger series of interstitials for Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network. JJSP also launched the first and second season of MTV's acclaimed "Beavis and Butthead" series in 1993. and is responsible for developing, producing and directing the "Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law" pilot with Cartoon Network's creators Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter.
As author, Sedelmaier has contributed to numerous articles for Print Magazine and its "Imprint" blog (http://imprint.printmag.com/j-j-sedelmaier/) as well as books by Steven Heller, Spencer Drate, David Levy, Maureen Furniss, and Paul Wells. He has spoken and organized screenings at schools and universities throughout the United States and is a regular presenter at both New York and Chicago ComicCons.
His father is Joe Sedelmaier, a retired director and producer of TV commercials.