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Brad Rader
graduated from
Art Center College of Design
in Pasadena, California, as an illustration major. From there he
went on to work in the TV industry as a storyboard artist on
various animated series including Rainbow Brite, The Littles,
The Real Ghostbusters, Alf, Alftails, The Simpsons, Batman,
Biker Mice from Mars, Gargoyles, Men in Black, Tarzan, Atlantis,
Spiderman, and Stripperella among others.
His TV directing credits include Captain Simian and the Space
Monkeys, Godzilla, and The Roswell Conspiracies. In
1999, Brad won an Emmy® award for directing the animated TV
series Spawn.
He has illustrated Batman Adventures, Gotham Adventures,
and Catwoman comic books (DC Comics); The Mark
(Dark Horse Comics); Fused (Image Comics); and Tex
(Atomic Basement).
Brad is recently ended a three year run creating storyboards for
the long-running prime time animated series, King of the Hill.
Always on the cutting edge, he has recently finished work on “Fogtown”,
a graphic novel for DC/Vertigo, as part of they’re recently
announced crime/noir imprint. “Fogtown” will see print in April
2010.
Brad Rader has been
doing homoerotic artwork since 1984, appearing in Drummer,
First Hand, and Chiron Rising, among others. In 2003 he
started Flaming Artist Publications, so far producing 2 issues
of the homoerotic magazine, “True Adult Fantasy”, He has had one
man shows of his erotic works in 1989 (The OneWay: “Recycled
Erotica”), 1991/1992 (A Different Light Bookstore in Silverlake
and San Francisco: “Free Art”), 2005 (Mr. B’s in Amsterdam and
Berlin), and 2007 (Flazh! Alley in San Pedro, of the original
artwork to the graphic novel, “Harry and Dickless Tom”).
Flaming Artist Press published his first graphic novel, “Harry
and Dickless Tom,” in July 2006. His work can be seen on his
website, “flamingartist.com”.
Teaching
experience includes Otis Parsons and Art Center College of
Design, where he taught Storyboarding and Storyboarding for all
media.
Raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Brad now lives and works in Los
Angeles, California, with his domestic partner of 24 years, John
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