Tad Stones

Edward T. "Tad" Stones (born May 28, 1952) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, producer and director, best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series Darkwing Duck and producing Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Aladdin, Hercules, and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. He was a storyboard artist on Bob's Burgers when it premiered in January 2011.

Biography Born in Burbank, California, Stones started with Disney training under animation veteran Eric Larson. He entered the Feature Animation training program three days after his college graduation in 1974. After animating a scene in The Rescuers, Stones moved into the story department on The Fox and the Hound. Hellboy: Sword of Storms made its television debut in the United States on October 28, 2006 on Cartoon Network. Hellboy: Blood and Iron, the second film in the Hellboy animated series, was screened on television in 2007. Stones completed the screenplay for a third film in the series, 'The Phantom Claw" based on a story by Stones and Mignola but it remains unproduced at this time. Stones was the Supervising Producer and Director on another DVD at Film Roman Studios, Turok: Son of Stone based on the classic Gold Key comic book series.

He has also written "Pyramid of Death", one of the two stories in the first volume of the Hellboy Animated comic book adaptation. He wrote and illustrated another young Hellboy story in the second volume which featured another creation of Mike Mignola's, Lobster Johnson, "The Menace of the Mechanical Monster." He also illustrated a story written by Todd Dezago in the third issue of "The Perhapanauts" published by Image Comics. He has also written for The Super Hero Squad Show and Generator Rex. He worked as an artist on Neighbors from Hell and Bob's Burgers. He has also contributed a script for the first annual of the comic book run of Darkwing Duck.

After quitting the Universal Studios, Stones returned to Disney to direct the Jake and the Never Land Pirates episode "The Pirate Princess" which aired June 17, 2011.

Although Darkwing Duck is a spin-off of DuckTales, Stones stated in a 2016 interview that he considers the two shows to exist in alternate universes.

Stones voices the executive on the phone who pitches Chip and Dale the prospect of their own show in the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers film released in May 2022.

Stones will be a creative consultant for the Darkwing Duck reboot series developed for Disney+.