I met Dave Shelton at a party in Hollywood and he was nice enough
to accept my invitation to drive out deep into the desert and
visit my digital media and acting students.

Dave Shelton
Film, music and television writer/cartoonist/voice over actor.

Credits include National Lampoon (Senior writer/cartoonist), Everybody Loves Raymond (creator of the Hackidu Characters), Nickelodeon (cartoonist), Disney (cartoonist), Against Type (creator/writer/executive producer), upcoming animated series Alien House (starring voice), the Sci-Fi Channel (voice over/ADR work), writer/producer of the upcoming films Nightmare Carnival, Shrieking Violet, Sleep Deprived, Shadowland and Exit 172 and the upcoming kids series Snuggy Bear and the T-Shirt Kids(c). A rock journalist and cartoonist for Tiger Beat Magazine and got to interview and cover bands including Kiss, Cindy Lauper, New Kids on the Block, U2, ACDC, Michael Jackson, the Grammys, Weird Al. I've worked with or am working with Roland Kickinger (Terminator Salvation), Stephen Furst (Animal House, Babylon 5), Tim Allen, Robert Wuhl (Arliss, Batman), Paul Reubens (PeeWee Herman), Jennette McCurdy (ICarly), Saige Ryan Campbell (Warner Bros.' Believers, All I Want For Christmas), Aaron Spelling, Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick on Sponge Bob Square Pants), Jennifer Elise Cox (The Brady Bunch movies), Dean Haglund (The X-Files), Chevy Chase (Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Vacation) and more. The music writing partner of Albert Hague who wrote all the music for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and my cartoon work has been part of the Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa and the Hague Museum of Cartoons in New York.