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| birth_name = James Garland Quintel
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| occupation = Voice actor, animator | birth_place = ], U.S.
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<!--DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT SOURCE. IMDB IS NOT RELIABLE FOR BIOGRAPHICAL INFO-->'''J. G. Quintel''' (born September 13, 1982) is an American ], ] and ]. He is best known as the creator of '']'', and was the creative director for '']''. '''James Garland Quintel''' is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the ] series '']'' (2010–2017), in which he voiced Mordecai and High Five Ghost, and the ] series '']'' (2020–2022), in which he voiced Josh.


Quintel was the creative director for ]’s '']'' (2008–2010), which aired on Cartoon Network, and a writer and storyboard artist for ]’s '']'' (2006–2008), which also aired on Cartoon Network. In 2009, he was nominated for the ] for directing an episode of ''Flapjack''. In 2011, he was nominated for the ] for ''Regular Show''.
Quintel graduated ] in 2000, and spent two years at ] and ] in ] before transferring to ].<ref name="hs"/> He created the short films, ''2 in the AM PM'' and ''The Naive Man From Lolliland'', the latter for which he won both 'Producers Choice Award' and 'Student Award' at the 2nd Annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival and both led to the creation of ''Regular Show''.<ref name="awn"/><ref name="awn2"/><ref name="am"/> Today Quintel is settled in ].


==Early life and education ==
In 2006 Quintel was chosen as a judge for the 3rd Annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival.<ref name="awn"/><ref name="awn2"/><ref name="am"/> Also in 2006 he began as writer and storyboard artist for '']''. In 2008 he began as writer, creative director, and storyboard artist for '']'',<ref name="hr"/> for which work he received a 2010 ] nomination.<ref name="aa"/> In 2009 he created the ]'s ], for which he is also writer, director, storyboard artist, producer, and voice of one of the main characters, Mordecai.
James Garland Quintel was born in ] to Terri (née Morris) and James Allen Quintel. According to Quintel, Hanford's geography is "kind of flat" and there "was not a ton to do" when he was growing up, so he and his friends were always looking for ways to entertain themselves; he later incorporated these kinds of misadventures into ''Regular Show''.<ref name="NYCC2011">{{cite web|title=NYCC 2011: Regular Show Interview w/ J. G. Quintel, Sam Marin, and William Salyers|author=TheBasementCouch|date=October 16, 2011|work=The Basement Couch |publisher=]|access-date=March 8, 2012|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzhmbJ4hTeA}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref><ref name="Leisure">{{cite news |title= Leisure: Animated dreams|first= Barbara |last=Swarm |newspaper= ]|date=September 8, 2005|access-date=March 13, 2012|url= http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/news/leisure-animated-dreams/article_02c01764-2968-509e-aeda-d60dfe0c3cb9.html}}</ref>


Quintel often played the video game '']'', the influence of which he later described as "the perfect platform" for ''Regular Show'' protagonists Mordecai and Rigby.<ref name="NYCC2011"/> He also became influenced by ] from the 1980s and later added 1980s music into ''Regular Show''.<ref name="NYCC2011"/> He attended ].<ref name="Hanford">{{cite news |title= Hanford High's JG Quintel has cartoon career|first=Rick|last=Bentley|newspaper=]|date=October 30, 2011|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/10/31/5895030.htm}}</ref> In 1998, when he was 16, his father gave him a video camera which he used (along with ] and crude ]) to create a few minutes of ] film for several short film projects at Hanford High School.<ref name="Leisure"/><ref name="Hanford"/> To expand his artistry, he took an ] literature class and a pottery class at Hanford High, as well as a summer class where he learned how to animate films and make ].<ref name="Leisure"/><ref name="Hanford"/> He also worked at a movie theater and at "a lot of minimum wage jobs",<ref>{{cite web|title= "Dude, we're 23 years old! We can't keep busting holes in walls!": The interview with "Regular Show"'s JG Quintel|author= MoniqueJ|date= September 12, 2010|work= Monique Blog|access-date= March 13, 2012|url= http://moniqueblog.net/2010/09/dude-were-23-years-old-we-cant-keep-busting-holes-in-walls-the-interview-with-jg-quintel/|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111011094105/http://moniqueblog.net/2010/09/dude-were-23-years-old-we-cant-keep-busting-holes-in-walls-the-interview-with-jg-quintel/|archive-date= October 11, 2011|df= mdy-all}}</ref> just as Mordecai and Rigby work for minimum wage at a park in ''Regular Show''.<ref name="NYCC2011"/> In May 2000, he was nominated as a 12th grade California academic all-star from Hanford High.<ref>{{cite news|title=And the Nominees Are ...|newspaper=] |page=A18|date=May 21, 2000}}</ref>
==Filmography==


After high school, Quintel attended the ] in ]. At CalArts, Quintel and about 20 fellow students, including now-voice artist Sam Marin, developed their short films by throwing title names (such as "lollypop" or "candy") into a hat, drawing them out, and reading them aloud at midnight as a warm-up, where they would each then rush back to their desks in a marathon effort to make a film in 48 hours based on the one word drawn.<ref name="NYCC2011"/> In the spring of 2005, this CalArts process led Quintel to put together a short animated film about an ] who loses his cool during a benign encounter.<ref name="French">{{cite news|title=French filmmaker wins Nicktoons top prize|newspaper=]|date=September 12, 2005|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2005/09/12/French-filmmaker-wins-Nicktoons-top-prize/UPI-36481126568897/}}</ref> Quintel titled his new film ''The Naive Man from Lolliland''.<ref name="French"/> Moreover, as Quintel's first exposure to the animation industry, Quintel obtained a 2004 ] at ] to work on the TV series '']''. At CalArts, Quintel would also meet another student by the name of ], with whom he would later work with on the ] series '']''. Ward would later use his experience from ''Flapjack'' to go on to create the ]-winning Cartoon Network series '']''.
{{BLP unsourced section|section|date=November 2010}}
;As writer and director
* ''2 in the AM PM'' (2006)
* ''Camp Lazlo'' (10 episodes, 2006–2007)
* ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'' (47 episodes, 2008–2010)
* ''Adventure Time'' (1 episode, 2010)
* ''Regular Show'' (5 episodes, 2010)
;As storyboard artist
* ''Camp Lazlo'' (9 episodes, 2006–2007)
* ''Horton Hears a Who!'' (2008)
* ''Phineas and Ferb (1 episode "]" 2008)
* ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'' (5 episodes, 2008–2009)
* ''Adventure Time'' (1 episode, 2010)
* ''Regular Show'' (2 episodes, 2010)
;As director
* ''2 in the AM PM'' (2006)
* ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'' (47 episodes, 2008–2010)
;As voice actor
* ''2 in the AM PM'' (2006)
* ''Regular Show'' (Mordecai, High Five Ghost, various voices)
;As producer
* ''Regular Show'' (4 episodes, 2010)
;As creator
* ''The Naive Man from Lolliland'' (2005)
* ''2 in the AM PM'' (2006)
* ''Regular Show'' (2010)


During the fall of Quintel's fourth year at CalArts, ''The Naive Man from Lolliland'' won both the Producers Choice Award (an ] and a copy of ] animation software) and the Student Animator Award (US$1,000 and a copy of ] ]) at the ].<ref name="French"/><ref name="Nextoons">{{cite news |title= Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces 2005 Winners|newspaper=] |date= September 12, 2005|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/nextoons-winners-announced/}}</ref> In response to Quintel's success at the 2005 ], ], an entertainment entrepreneur and television and film producer, identified Quintel as "an original talent to watch out for in the future".<ref name="Nextoons"/> Quintel's hometown local newspaper, the '']'', noted Quintel's success at the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival as being one of 2005's moments from a memorable year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lifestyle: 2005 in review: Moments from a memorable year|first=Barbara|last=Swarm|newspaper= ]|date=December 31, 2005|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/news/lifestyle-in-review-moments-from-a-memorable-year/article_d56ae7b3-b155-5253-9e18-5210375a4f8c.html}}</ref> In December 2005, Quintel graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a ] degree in ].<ref name="Judges">{{cite news|title=Judges Set for 3rd Annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival|first=Sarah|last=Baisley|newspaper=]|date=May 23, 2006|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.awn.com/news/television/judges-set-3rd-annual-nicktoons-network-animation-festival/page/1%2C1}}</ref>
==Shorts==
*'''''The Naive Man from Lolliland:''''' The ambassador of Lolliland visits the United States for the first time (now called Pops in ''Regular Show''). When eating at a restaurant, when he had to pay for the food, he paid with his currency; lollipops. His payment caused many conflicts with the chefs and workers in the restaurant. This is the first appearance of the prototype Pops and his driver is named Benson (which would later be the name of another character in ''Regular Show''). Like '']'', this short aired on ].
*'''''2 in the AM PM:''''' Two gas station workers have to work in two-o clock in the morning during ]. When the two eat chocolate candy filled with ] by one of the clerks (he accidentally said he put ] in the candy first) it causes them to trip and transform into different characters such as a ] and a ] (which were the models of Mordecai and Benson respectively). When a police officer is about to enter the store, they had to concentrate to turn back to normal. They turned back but the policeman turned out to be a super alien. This short never aired on television, presumably due to its crude animation and adult content.
*''''']:''''' The ] for J.G. Quintel's series. A blue jay and a raccoon (Mordecai and Rigby respectively) have to fight ] to win over a chair which goes out of hand. This short was made for '']'' (which never aired on television but an extended version of the pilot named "First Day" aired as a Season 2 episode of ]).


==Recognition== ==Career==
After graduating, Quintel passed a test and began working as a storyboard revisionist for Cartoon Network's '']''.<ref name="Leisure"/> In May 2006, ] announced that Quintel would be one of six judges at the 3rd Annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival.<ref name="Judges"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Nicktoons Hits The Road On Cross-Country Mobile Tour|first=Rick|last=DeMott|newspaper=]|date=July 10, 2006|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.awn.com/news/television/nicktoons-hits-road-cross-country-mobile-tour/page/1%2C1}}</ref> In 2007, Quintel entered his short film, ''2 in the AM PM'', in the 30th annual ].<ref name="Twist">{{cite news|title=Cartoons With A Twist|first=Susan|last=Dunne|newspaper=] |page=16|date=March 8, 2007|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=https://www.courant.com/2007/03/08/cartoons-with-a-twist/}}</ref> In ''2 in the AM PM'', two ] are left alone to run a convenience store/gas station on ] night, where candy filled with drugs creates a mini-nightmare.<ref>{{cite news|title=18th Annual New Orleans Film Festival Oct. 11-18 '07|newspaper=]|page=S1|date=October 2, 2007|volume=28|issue=40|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://blog.nola.com/tvfilm/2007/10/animation.html|archive-date=September 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906001106/http://blog.nola.com/tvfilm/2007/10/animation.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Quintel later used some of these ''2 in the AM PM'' characters in ''Regular Show.''<ref name="NYCC2011"/>
===Awards and nominations===
* 2005, won 'Producers Choice Award' at ] for ''The Naive Man from Lolliland''<ref name="awn"/><ref name="am"/>
* 2005, won 'Student Award' at ] for ''The Naive Man from Lolliland''<ref name="awn"/><ref name="am"/>
* 2010, ] nomination for 'Directing in a Television Production" for ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack''<ref name="aa"/>
* 2010, ] nomination for "Best Childrens Animation" for ''Regular Show''
* 2011, ] nomination for Outstanding short fomat animation for ''Regular Show''


In 2008, Quintel ] '']'' for the ] at Cartoon Network by using a ], with his reasoning that "I don't think me verbally pitching such an odd concept would have made any sense to anyone."<ref name="NYCC2011"/> In 2009, Cartoon Network ordered more episodes of ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'' as well as ] Quintel's project, ''Regular Show''.<ref name="Greenlit">{{cite news|title=Cartoon draws more shows: Cartoon Network has greenlit two series and picked up additional episodes of a third.|first=Stuart|last=Levine|newspaper=]|page=3|date=August 14, 2009|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=https://variety.com/2009/digital/markets-festivals/cartoon-draws-more-shows-1118007262/}}</ref> The agreement upon the premise of ''Regular Show'' was that the series would be about two park groundskeepers, Mordecai (a 6-foot ]) and Rigby (a hyperactive ]),<ref>{{cite news|title=Cartoon drafts a pair of comedies.|first=James|last=Hibberd|newspaper=]|page=3|date=August 14, 2009|volume=411|issue=4|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://mobile.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE57D0GI20090814}}</ref> who try to entertain themselves at their jobs while doing anything they can to avoid work and escape their everyday boredom.<ref name="Greenlit"/> Along with his success at getting approval to develop ''Regular Show,'' in December 2009, Quintel and director John Infantino were nominated for an ] ] in the category of "]" for their directing work on the '']'' episode in Season 2 of ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack''.<ref name="ASIFA">{{cite web|title=ASIFA Annie Awards & Nominations 2010|date=January 8, 2010|work=Tea time news from around the world|publisher=B4Tea.com|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://b4tea.com/entertainment/2010-annie-award-nominations-asifa-annie-awards-2010|archive-date=August 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812033324/http://b4tea.com/entertainment/2010-annie-award-nominations-asifa-annie-awards-2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, American animation director and fellow CalArts graduate ] subsequently took the director Annie Award in February 2010 for Haaland's work on '']''.<ref>{{cite web|title= 2010 Annie Awards nominations: Dec. 1, 2009, winners: Feb. 6, 2010|author=Anna Robinson|date=February 7, 2010|work=Alt Film Guide|publisher=altfg.com|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/annie-awards-2010-123/}}</ref> Nine months after Quintel was nominated for an Annie Award, ''Regular Show'' debuted at 8:15 P.M. ] on September 6, 2010.<ref>{{cite news |title=What's On Today|first= Kathryn|last=Shattuck|newspaper=] |date=September 6, 2010|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404EEDD1F3EF935A3575AC0A9669D8B63}}</ref> In September 2011, while the first season of ''Regular Show'' was being aired, Quintel was nominated for a ] in the ] as executive producer and creator of ''Regular Show''.<ref name="KGPE">{{cite news |title=KGPE launches new Sunday NFL show|first=Rick|last=Bentley|newspaper=]|date=September 8, 2011 |access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://satellite.tmcnet.com/news/2011/09/07/5759185.htm}}</ref> However, his ''Regular Show'' series was beat out for the award by the ] animated special, '']''.<ref>{{cite news|title=KFRE to air high school HD football|first=Rick|last=Bentley|newspaper=]|date=September 14, 2011|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://fresnobeehive.com/2011/09/tough_weekend_f.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712003241/http://fresnobeehive.com/2011/09/tough_weekend_f.html|archive-date=July 12, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
==References==
<references>


By March 2012, Quintel was directing a crew of about 35 to develop each episode of ''Regular Show'', which takes about nine months to go from idea to final product.<ref name="Hanford"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Cartoon Network Brings the Funny to WonderCon 2012|date=March 8, 2012|work=Action Figure Insider|publisher=actionfigureinsider.com|access-date=March 13, 2012|url=http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/main/cartoon-network-brings-the-funny-to-wondercon-2012}}</ref> Quintel has most recently worked for Cartoon Network Studios in ] developing episodes for ''Regular Show'' and provided his real voice to the 23-year-old blue jay ''Regular Show'' character Mordecai.<ref name="Hanford"/> In commenting on his voice acting, Quintel noted how he has an easy-going nature and never yells in real life, so he had to learn how to yell as the Mordecai character.<ref name="NYCC2011"/>
<ref name="awn">{{cite news|url=http://www.awn.com/news/television/judges-set-3rd-annual-nicktoons-network-animation-festival|title=Judges Set for 3rd Annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival|last=Baisley|first=Sarah|date=May 23, 2006|work=]|accessdate=30 September 2010}}</ref>


Following ''Regular Show''{{'s}} conclusion in January 2017, Quintel announced the creation of '']'', an adult animated series about a young couple and their daughter in ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/05/tbs-close-enough-regular-show-creator-the-dress-up-gang-series-upfront-1202095399/|title = TBS Orders Toon Series from 'Regular Show' Creator & Comedy from the Dress up Gang Trio|date = May 17, 2017}}</ref> The series was initially expected to premiere later in 2017 as part of a planned adult animation block on ]. However, the cornerstone of that block was a ]-helmed series called ''The Cops'', and when C.K. admitted to sexual misconduct earlier that summer TBS re-tooled their entire schedule, shunting ''Close Enough'' into ] despite having its entire first season produced. It was later resurrected when TBS' parent company ] announced the launch of a streaming service, ] (Now Max), that would feature original exclusive content.
<ref name="hr">{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/television/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=11228|title=TV review: ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack''|last=Moss|first=Marilyn|date=July 4, 2008|work=]|accessdate=30 September 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>


On June 12, 2024, ] announced that ''Regular Show'' would be getting a new series with Quintel returning as showrunner.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://comicbook.com/anime/news/regular-show-cartoon-network-new-series/ | title=Regular Show Will Return with New Series from Original Creator }}</ref> In the same month, it was announced that Quintel will also serve as showrunner for an adult television adaption of ]'s webcomic, ''SuperMutant Magic Academy'', for ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gajewski |first=Ryan |date=2024-06-14 |title=Anthony Bourdain-Penned Graphic Novels to Become Adult Swim TV Show (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/anthony-bourdain-get-jiro-adult-swim-super-mutant-magic-academy-1235921983/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
<ref name="hs">{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HSCA&p_multi=HNSB&p_theme=hsca&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10C892658FE8D0A0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Animated dreams|last=Swarm|first=Barbara|date=September 9, 2005|work=]|accessdate=30 September 2010}}</ref>


==Personal life==
<ref name="awn2">{{cite news|url=http://www.awn.com/news/television/nicktoons-hits-road-cross-country-mobile-tour|title=Nicktoons Hits The Road On Cross-Country Mobile Tour|last=DeMott|first=Rick|date=July 10, 2006|work=]|accessdate=30 September 2010}}</ref>
Quintel married Cassia Streb in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mrsquintel.tumblr.com/post/182436700888/jg-cassia|title=MRS Quintel}}</ref>


==Filmography==
<ref name="am">{{cite news|url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=5773|title=Nicktoons Doles Out Awards|last=Ball|first=Ryan|date=August 14, 2006|work=]|accessdate=30 September 2010}}</ref>
===Film===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
! Storyboard Artist
! Actor
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 2005
| ''The Naive Man from Lolliland''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
|Short film<ref name="French"/>
|-
| 2006
| ''2 in the AM PM''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| Gas Station Employee #1
| Short film<ref name="Twist"/>
|-
| 2008
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
| Additional storyboard artist
|-
| 2015
| '']''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| Mordecai, High Five Ghost
| Executive producer
|}


===Television===
<ref name="aa">{{cite web|url=http://b4tea.com/entertainment/2010-annie-award-nominations-asifa-annie-awards-2010|title=ASIFA Annie Awards & Nominations 2010|date=February 7, 2010|work=]|accessdate=30 September 2010}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Creator
! Director
! Writer
! Executive Producer
! Storyboard Artist
! Actor
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 2004
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
| Apprentice storyboard revisionist
|-
| 2005–2008
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
| Storyboard revisionist<ref name="Leisure"/>
|-
|2008
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
| Episode: "]"
|-
|2008–2010
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
|
| Creative director, story
|-
|2010, 2017
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| Blue Jay
| Wrote and storyboarded: "Ocean of Fear"<br />Voice: "]"
|-
|2010–2017
| '']''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| Mordecai, High Five Ghost, Additional Voices
| <ref name="NYCC2011"/>
|-
|2012
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| Mordecai
|
|-
|2016
| '']''
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}
| High Five Ghost
| Episode: "The Boredom"
|-
|2020–2022
| '']''
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| {{Yes}}
| Josh, himself
|
|}


==Awards and nominations==
</references>
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Work
! Result
|-
|2005
|]
| Producers Choice Award<ref name="Nextoons"/>
|''The Naive Man from Lolliland''
| {{won}}
|-
|2005
|Nicktoons Film Festival
| Student Animator Award
|''The Naive Man from Lolliland''
| {{won}}
|-
| 2010
| ]
| Directing in a Television Production<ref name="ASIFA"/>
| '']: Candy Casanova''
| {{nom}}
|-
|]
|]
|]<ref name="KGPE"/>
|'']: Mordecai and the Rigbys''
| {{nom}}
|-
|]
|]
|]<ref name=Emmy></ref>
|'']: Eggscellent''
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|]
|]
|]
|'']: A Bunch of Full Grown Geese''
| {{nom}}
|-
|]
| ]
|'']: The Christmas Special''
| {{nom}}
|-
|]
|]
|]
|'']: The Last LaserDisc Player''
| {{nom}}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}


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American animator

J. G. Quintel
Quintel in July 2011
BornJames Garland Quintel
Hanford, California, U.S.
EducationCalArts (BFA)
Occupations
  • Animator
  • storyboard artist
  • director
  • writer
  • producer
  • voice actor
Years active2004–present
Known forRegular Show
Close Enough
Camp Lazlo
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Spouse Cassia Streb
​ ​(m. 2010)​

James Garland Quintel is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network series Regular Show (2010–2017), in which he voiced Mordecai and High Five Ghost, and the HBO Max series Close Enough (2020–2022), in which he voiced Josh.

Quintel was the creative director for Thurop Van Orman’s The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008–2010), which aired on Cartoon Network, and a writer and storyboard artist for Joe Murray’s Camp Lazlo (2006–2008), which also aired on Cartoon Network. In 2009, he was nominated for the Annie Award for Directing in a Television Production for directing an episode of Flapjack. In 2011, he was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program category for Regular Show.

Early life and education

James Garland Quintel was born in Hanford, California to Terri (née Morris) and James Allen Quintel. According to Quintel, Hanford's geography is "kind of flat" and there "was not a ton to do" when he was growing up, so he and his friends were always looking for ways to entertain themselves; he later incorporated these kinds of misadventures into Regular Show.

Quintel often played the video game ToeJam & Earl, the influence of which he later described as "the perfect platform" for Regular Show protagonists Mordecai and Rigby. He also became influenced by rock music from the 1980s and later added 1980s music into Regular Show. He attended Hanford High School. In 1998, when he was 16, his father gave him a video camera which he used (along with Lego men and crude paper cutouts) to create a few minutes of stop motion film for several short film projects at Hanford High School. To expand his artistry, he took an AP literature class and a pottery class at Hanford High, as well as a summer class where he learned how to animate films and make flip books. He also worked at a movie theater and at "a lot of minimum wage jobs", just as Mordecai and Rigby work for minimum wage at a park in Regular Show. In May 2000, he was nominated as a 12th grade California academic all-star from Hanford High.

After high school, Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California. At CalArts, Quintel and about 20 fellow students, including now-voice artist Sam Marin, developed their short films by throwing title names (such as "lollypop" or "candy") into a hat, drawing them out, and reading them aloud at midnight as a warm-up, where they would each then rush back to their desks in a marathon effort to make a film in 48 hours based on the one word drawn. In the spring of 2005, this CalArts process led Quintel to put together a short animated film about an ambassador who loses his cool during a benign encounter. Quintel titled his new film The Naive Man from Lolliland. Moreover, as Quintel's first exposure to the animation industry, Quintel obtained a 2004 internship at Cartoon Network Studios to work on the TV series Star Wars: Clone Wars. At CalArts, Quintel would also meet another student by the name of Pendleton Ward, with whom he would later work with on the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. Ward would later use his experience from Flapjack to go on to create the Emmy Award-winning Cartoon Network series Adventure Time.

During the fall of Quintel's fourth year at CalArts, The Naive Man from Lolliland won both the Producers Choice Award (an Apple G5 computer and a copy of Bauhaus Software's Mirage animation software) and the Student Animator Award (US$1,000 and a copy of Softimage XSI 3D computer graphics software) at the 2005 Nextoons Nicktoons Film Festival. In response to Quintel's success at the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival, Fred Seibert, an entertainment entrepreneur and television and film producer, identified Quintel as "an original talent to watch out for in the future". Quintel's hometown local newspaper, the Hanford Sentinel, noted Quintel's success at the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival as being one of 2005's moments from a memorable year. In December 2005, Quintel graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA degree in character animation.

Career

After graduating, Quintel passed a test and began working as a storyboard revisionist for Cartoon Network's Camp Lazlo. In May 2006, Nicktoons Network announced that Quintel would be one of six judges at the 3rd Annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. In 2007, Quintel entered his short film, 2 in the AM PM, in the 30th annual Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. In 2 in the AM PM, two slackers are left alone to run a convenience store/gas station on Halloween night, where candy filled with drugs creates a mini-nightmare. Quintel later used some of these 2 in the AM PM characters in Regular Show.

In 2008, Quintel pitched Regular Show for the Cartoonstitute project at Cartoon Network by using a storyboard, with his reasoning that "I don't think me verbally pitching such an odd concept would have made any sense to anyone." In 2009, Cartoon Network ordered more episodes of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack as well as greenlit Quintel's project, Regular Show. The agreement upon the premise of Regular Show was that the series would be about two park groundskeepers, Mordecai (a 6-foot blue jay) and Rigby (a hyperactive raccoon), who try to entertain themselves at their jobs while doing anything they can to avoid work and escape their everyday boredom. Along with his success at getting approval to develop Regular Show, in December 2009, Quintel and director John Infantino were nominated for an ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Award in the category of "Directing in a Television Production" for their directing work on the Candy Casanova episode in Season 2 of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. However, American animation director and fellow CalArts graduate Bret Haaland subsequently took the director Annie Award in February 2010 for Haaland's work on The Penguins of Madagascar – Launchtime. Nine months after Quintel was nominated for an Annie Award, Regular Show debuted at 8:15 P.M. EST on September 6, 2010. In September 2011, while the first season of Regular Show was being aired, Quintel was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short-format Animated Program category as executive producer and creator of Regular Show. However, his Regular Show series was beat out for the award by the ABC animated special, Disney Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa.

By March 2012, Quintel was directing a crew of about 35 to develop each episode of Regular Show, which takes about nine months to go from idea to final product. Quintel has most recently worked for Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California developing episodes for Regular Show and provided his real voice to the 23-year-old blue jay Regular Show character Mordecai. In commenting on his voice acting, Quintel noted how he has an easy-going nature and never yells in real life, so he had to learn how to yell as the Mordecai character.

Following Regular Show's conclusion in January 2017, Quintel announced the creation of Close Enough, an adult animated series about a young couple and their daughter in Los Angeles. The series was initially expected to premiere later in 2017 as part of a planned adult animation block on TBS. However, the cornerstone of that block was a Louis C.K.-helmed series called The Cops, and when C.K. admitted to sexual misconduct earlier that summer TBS re-tooled their entire schedule, shunting Close Enough into development hell despite having its entire first season produced. It was later resurrected when TBS' parent company WarnerMedia Entertainment announced the launch of a streaming service, HBO Max (Now Max), that would feature original exclusive content.

On June 12, 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that Regular Show would be getting a new series with Quintel returning as showrunner. In the same month, it was announced that Quintel will also serve as showrunner for an adult television adaption of Jillian Tamaki's webcomic, SuperMutant Magic Academy, for Adult Swim.

Personal life

Quintel married Cassia Streb in 2010.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Director Writer Producer Storyboard Artist Actor Role Notes
2005 The Naive Man from Lolliland Yes Yes Yes Yes No Short film
2006 2 in the AM PM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Gas Station Employee #1 Short film
2008 Horton Hears a Who! No No No Yes No Additional storyboard artist
2015 Regular Show: The Movie Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Mordecai, High Five Ghost Executive producer

Television

Year Title Creator Director Writer Executive Producer Storyboard Artist Actor Role Notes
2004 Star Wars: Clone Wars No No No No Yes No Apprentice storyboard revisionist
2005–2008 Camp Lazlo No Yes Yes No Yes No Storyboard revisionist
2008 Phineas and Ferb No No Yes No Yes No Episode: "Jerk De Soleil"
2008–2010 The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack No Yes Yes No Yes No Creative director, story
2010, 2017 Adventure Time No No Yes No Yes Yes Blue Jay Wrote and storyboarded: "Ocean of Fear"
Voice: "Ketchup"
2010–2017 Regular Show Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Mordecai, High Five Ghost, Additional Voices
2012 Hall of Game Awards No No No No No Yes Mordecai
2016 The Amazing World of Gumball No No No No No Yes High Five Ghost Episode: "The Boredom"
2020–2022 Close Enough Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Josh, himself

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result
2005 Nicktoons Film Festival Producers Choice Award The Naive Man from Lolliland Won
2005 Nicktoons Film Festival Student Animator Award The Naive Man from Lolliland Won
2010 Annie Award Directing in a Television Production The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: Candy Casanova Nominated
2011 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show: Mordecai and the Rigbys Nominated
2012 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show: Eggscellent Won
2013 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show: A Bunch of Full Grown Geese Nominated
Emmy Award Outstanding Animated Program Regular Show: The Christmas Special Nominated
2014 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show: The Last LaserDisc Player Nominated

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