Maxwell Atoms | |
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Born | Adam Maxwell Burton |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, director, producer, voice actor |
Years active | 1995–present |
Known for |
Adam Maxwell Burton, [1] known professionally as Maxwell Atoms, is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is the creator of the Cartoon Network series Grim & Evil and its subsequent spin-offs, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne . [2]
Atoms is the creator of Cartoon Network's animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , [3] Evil Con Carne , and has developed a Billy & Mandy spin-off Halloween special called Underfist: Halloween Bash . [4] Atoms attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. [4] Before he started working on his own series, Atoms was an intern at Film Roman, a freelance artist at Warner Bros., had a brief stint at WildBrain, [5] and had also worked on The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat . [4] Atoms got a job at Hanna-Barbera and as a story and storyboard artist on Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel . [4] Atoms also performed the voice of Jeff the Spider and Piff on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, [6] and voiced Cod Commando on Evil Con Carne. [7] He also voiced several additional characters in the TV-movie Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure . [8]
Atoms is good friends with fellow animator Mr. Warburton, creator of Codename: Kids Next Door and C. H. Greenblatt, the creator of Chowder and Harvey Beaks . He and Warburton have made multiple references to each other's shows and have made a crossover half-hour special, The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door. As for C. H., he voiced the character Fred Fredburger in several episodes of Billy & Mandy, [2] alongside a brief cameo of Chowder in Underfist. Atoms was also an executive producer and voice actor of the Disney show Fish Hooks with Noah Z. Jones. [9]
As of 2012, Atoms begun developing a new project entitled Dead Meat, "an awesome black comedy/buddy action/puppet gore web series", [10] which was still in production as of January 2020 and had a successful Kickstarter campaign as of November 15, 2013. [11] In an interview in 2013, Atoms stated that the series would be posted somewhere on the internet once it is finished. In early 2014, Atoms stated that he hopes to get the series released in 2015. This fell through and, in early 2020, Atoms announced that the project is shelved indefinitely and all backers will be refunded due to expensive costs and contractual issues. [12] [lower-alpha 1] In 2016 he began working on a new series called Bunnicula . [4] The show ended in 2018.[ citation needed ]
In 2020, he provided several additional voices for the adult animated web series Hazbin Hotel , [13] as he met creator Vivienne Medrano during work on Dead Meat. He serves as a storyboard supervisor on The Patrick Star Show .
Atoms lives in Los Angeles. He has autism spectrum disorder. [14]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat | N/A | Character designer |
1998–1999 | Cow and Chicken | N/A | Props Story Storyboard artist |
1998–1999 | I Am Weasel | N/A | Props Story Storyboard artist |
2000 | Poochini | N/A | Storyboard artist Title card designer |
2001–2003 | Grim & Evil | Cod Commando Jeff the Spider | Creator Director Writer and Storyboard artist Executive producer Character and Prop designer |
2002–2003 | Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? | N/A | Layout artist |
2003–2008 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | Jeff the Spider Additional voices | Creator Writer and storyboard artist Story Executive producer Character and Prop Designer |
2003–2004 | Evil Con Carne | Cod Commando Additional voices | Creator Writer and Storyboard artist Story Executive producer Character and Prop Designer |
2008–2009 | Chowder | Additional voices | Story Storyboard artist |
2010–2014 | Fish Hooks | Additional voices | Story Director Supervising director Storyboard artist Writer Executive producer |
2016–2018 | Bunnicula | N/A | Producer Writer Storyboard artist Director |
2019 | Teen Titans Go! | N/A | Writer Director Storyboard artist |
2023 | The Patrick Star Show | N/A | Storyboard supervisor |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | Billy & Mandy in: Trepanation of the Skull and You | Billy | Student film |
2001 | The Flintstones: On the Rocks | N/A | Character layout artist |
2007 | The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door | N/A | Creator |
2007 | Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure | I'll Cut You Guy Pirate #2 Horrorbot Burnt Skeleton Guard | Creator Story Writer Storyboard artist Character designer |
2007 | Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen | Jeff the Spider Mystery Announcer Man | Creator Story |
2008 | Underfist | Jeff the Spider | Creator Story Storyboard artist Art director Character designer |
2020 | Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! [15] | N/A | Writer Producer Director |
2021 | Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob | N/A | Writer Producer Director |
Year | Title | Role |
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2009 | Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall | Jeff the Spider |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2016 | Cartoons VS Cancer | Himself | |
2019 | Hazbin Hotel | Additional voices | Pilot: "That's Entertainment" |
2020 | Helluva Boss | Ralphie, additional voices [16] [17] | In S1E1, "Murder Family" |
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