Glen Murakami

Glen Murakami is a Japanese-American animator, artist, character designer, director and producer best known for his work on Teen Titans, Batman Beyond, The Batman, Beware the Batman, Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. Murakami is the creator and producer of the Cartoon Network series Teen Titans.

Animation Murakami originally wanted to be a comic book artist. His friend from junior high and high school, Keith Weesner, got a job working on Batman: The Animated Series as a background artist and informed Murakami when they were hiring artists at Warner Bros. Animation. Murakami was given a storyboard test, which he failed. But seeing his drawing talent, he was hired anyway.

Working closely with Bruce Timm, Murakami worked as a character designer and storyboard artist from 1991 to 1993. From 1995 to 1999, Murakami worked as Art Director on Superman: The Animated Series and The New Batman/Superman Adventures. With the direction for the new show put in place, Murakami, as the show's creator, would co-develop the series with Register and television writer David Slack and serve as the show's producer.

Comics Murakami illustrated the Star Wars comic Death Star Pirates - originally published in issues #16 through #20 of the Star Wars kids magazine in 1998 and later collected in Star Wars Tales Volume 2 by Dark Horse Comics.

He also drew a cover for Teen Titans Go!, and wrote and drew for stories in Batman Adventures and Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories, winning an Eisner Award for his work in the Batman Adventures Holiday Special.

Awards Eisner Award - Best Single Issue - 1995 - 'Batman Adventures Holiday' Special (with Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Ronnie del Carmen, and others) Annie Award - Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television Production - 1999 - Legends of the Dark Knight - 'The New Batman/Superman Adventures'/Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Production - 2001 - ' Batman Beyond' (with Jean MacCurdy, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, and others) Emmy Award - Outstanding Special Class Animated Program - 2001 - ' Batman Beyond' (with Jean MacCurdy, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Hilary Bader, Stan Berkowitz, Rich Fogel, Robert Goodman, Curt Geda, Butch Lukic, Dan Riba, James Tucker, Andrea Romano)

Influences Murakami's influences include Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, John Byrne, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Dave Stevens.

Filmography Film, as writer Year Title Credited as Company Writer Producer Developer

2006 Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo

Television, as writer