Artist Research
Bruce Walter Timm was born on February 8, 1961, in Oklahoma. His father was an engineer and his mother worked for a phone company. He has two older brother and younger brother. When he was two years old his family moved to Ohio for a couple of years, then moved to California when he was about six years old. They would occasionally have a few comics around their house, but he would mostly get them when he was sick. His mother would go the the drugstore to get medicine and he would usual ask for her to get some comics. Once he got older and had an allowance he would spend some of his money on comics. He didn’t get seriously into comics until he was 12 or 13 years old. His first serious exposure to super-heroes was in Adam West Batman show. While he was taking a ceramics class in summer school, his teacher, Mr. Hill, asked Bruce to do a bunch of illustrations and a cover …show more content…
Mr. hill was actually one of a few teachers who really encouraged Bruce’s art. Towards the end of high school, he realized that comic book artist weren’t world famous or millionaires, so his plan was to go to college and learn a take different course just in case his art career doesn’t work. He only spent a year in college, but left because they asked him to leave since his grades were so bad. He decided that he wouldn’t go to a proper art school because it’s too expensive and the closest school was all the way in Pasadena. It would have been more beneficial for him to go to an actual art school because he still doesn’t know how to do basic things. His first proper job in the art field was with Filmation Studios. When he first applied for the job, he took a layout test but he didn’t get the job. A year later, Filmation was hiring again so he took the layout test again and finally go it, from that point on he was in the
Bruce Walter Timm was born on February 8, 1961, in Oklahoma. His father was an engineer and his mother worked for a phone company. He has two older brother and younger brother. When he was two years old his family moved to Ohio for a couple of years, then moved to California when he was about six years old. They would occasionally have a few comics around their house, but he would mostly get them when he was sick. His mother would go the the drugstore to get medicine and he would usual ask for her to get some comics. Once he got older and had an allowance he would spend some of his money on comics. He didn’t get seriously into comics until he was 12 or 13 years old. His first serious exposure to super-heroes was in Adam West Batman show. While he was taking a ceramics class in summer school, his teacher, Mr. Hill, asked Bruce to do a bunch of illustrations and a cover …show more content…
Mr. hill was actually one of a few teachers who really encouraged Bruce’s art. Towards the end of high school, he realized that comic book artist weren’t world famous or millionaires, so his plan was to go to college and learn a take different course just in case his art career doesn’t work. He only spent a year in college, but left because they asked him to leave since his grades were so bad. He decided that he wouldn’t go to a proper art school because it’s too expensive and the closest school was all the way in Pasadena. It would have been more beneficial for him to go to an actual art school because he still doesn’t know how to do basic things. His first proper job in the art field was with Filmation Studios. When he first applied for the job, he took a layout test but he didn’t get the job. A year later, Filmation was hiring again so he took the layout test again and finally go it, from that point on he was in the