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Career
Jeanette 'Jett' Atwood is an American animator and cartoonist currently living in San Francisco. A graduate of classical animation at Sheridan College, Jett has worked on numerous video games and short films as a storyboard artist, animator, and writer. Among her Smart Bomb Interactive titles are Pac-Man World Rally (2006) and Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (2006). Atwood is a successful cartoonist with numerous works, both online web comics, and in print.
Comics
She is the creator of Red Sparrow, detailing the trials of a rookie super hero, the Battlestar Galactica parody Frakkin' Toasters" and the Xena parody Battle-On!.
In 2005 her comic Puzzles was collected in the Eisner Award nominated anthology, 24 Hour Comics Day Highlights 2005. It was her first 24-hour comic. For the 2006 24 Hour Comic Day Jett created a sequel Loose Threads. It revisits the characters approximately a year and a half after the events of "Puzzles." A year after that the final chapter Word Games was completed as part of the 2007 24 Hour comic challenge. Jett is working on compiling the Puzzles trilogy as a graphic novel to be released in July 2008. She is also editing a comic anthology entitled Scrivener's Toves," also to be released July 2008.
Young Jett
Drawing since the age of 6, Jett is one of those rare individuals that knew what she wanted to be at a very early age. She recognizes she is a fortunate rarity. If everyone grew up to be what they wanted to be in first grade we'd have far too many firemen, cowboys and ballerinas.
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