Joel Adams – Artist
Joel Adams is the eldest son of famed comic book artist Neal Adams. After graduating the School of Visual Arts in New York, Joel moved to Los Angeles to work at Neal’s west coast offices of Continuity Studios. While there, he dabbled in comic books helping out on Continuity titles such as “Ms Mystic”, and “Bucky O’Hare”. Outside Continuity, he did a few covers for Alpha Production’s “Blood Thirst” line, and was then picked up by Penthouse Comix to do “Young Captain Adventure”.
From comics, Joel moved on to animation. Marvel Animation in 1996 picked up Joel To do all the character design for “The Hulk: Animated series”, “Nascar Racers” and was a lead character designer for the Emmy Award winning “King of the Hill”.
His background with Continuity and comic books gave Joel the additional skills, while working for the animation companies, to be also picked up for all of the licensing art for these shows and others by the licensing companies handling them. Joel’s art has appeared on the products stemming from: The Hulk, Nascar Racers, King of the Hill, Captain Scarlet, The Mask(Animation), Power Rangers: Light Speed Rescue, Power Rangers: Wild Force, and Harry Potter: and the Goblet of Fire.
Today, Joel has been devoted to his own license LILZ, a series of big head big eyed characters he began showing back in 2000, that have taken off almost virally in online community message boards and websites in what are called “signature tags”. He is now in the process of getting Lilz off of the Internet and into stores everywhere.
Joel is also a regular art contributor, web designer and consultant to Carrie Leigh’s NUDE Magazine, a prestigious, black and white fine art nude photography and art magazine.
Websites: www.joeladamsdsg.com | www.lilz.net | MySpace
