Joe Murray
Joe Murray
Joseph David "Joe" Murrayis an American animator, writer, illustrator, producer, director, and voice actor, best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated series Rocko's Modern Life and the Cartoon Network animated series Camp Lazlo. Born in San Jose, California, Murray was interested in a career in the arts when he was three. He credits his high school art teacher Mark Briggs with teaching him a lot about art. Murray was a political cartoonist for a newspaper, often targeting then...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 May 1961
CountryUnited States of America
The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
This is just the beginning. There are several million tons in the general vicinity (of East Texas).
Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.
I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.
The guy who actually did the belch talking is a producer at Warner brothers. Everyone told us how great he was, so we brought him in on recording day.
I'm drawing, animating and writing better than I've ever been before, and I love my life with my wife Carol and the excitement of our new baby!!
When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.