Ben Jones (American cartoonist)


Benjamin Quincy Jones is an American creative director of television and animation, fine artist, voice actor, animator, producer, writer and storyboard artist. He was a co-founder and member of the art collective Paper Rad from 2001–2008. He has worked on various animated television programs and web series for Animation Domination High-Def. Since 2017, Jones is the creative director of Bento Box Entertainment. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Biography

Jones was born in 1977 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in central Massachusetts. His family collected computers, a hobby initiated by his father, Frank, who was a software engineer. This influenced Jones a lot, so much that later he would draw inspiration for his future style of art and design.
Jones attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and graduated in 1999 with a B.F.A. in Studio of Interrelated Media.

Career

While studying in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, he began working in an art collaboration with classmate Christopher Forgues under the name "Paper Radio". Art in America magazine named Jones one of the, "most important cartoonists of their generation" for his work with Paper Radio. In 2000, he founded the East Coast art collective Paper Rad, with the artist Jacob Ciocci and his sister Jessica Ciocci. Paper Rad is best known for creating comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and music with a distinct "lo-fi" aesthetic.
Ben Jones collaborated with PFFR and Williams Street on a 2007 pilot for Adult Swim titled Neon Knome. It was passed by the network and went on to become rebranded as a Cartoon Network show called The Problem Solverz. Jones is the main creator and the voice actor of Alfe and Roba in the Cartoon Network show, The Problem Solverz.
In 2013, Jones became the creative director of the Fox Saturday night programming block ADHD, where he released his series, Stone Quackers. The program aired as sneak peek on October 27, 2014 on FXX and a spin-off, Gothball, was premiered as a web-series on May 1, 2015 on the ADHD YouTube channel.
Jone's work in fine art painting includes psychedelic themed painting, described as brightly colored, often visually flat or with pattern.

Filmography

Music videos