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Michael Dooley is a Los Angeles-based creative director, designs print,online, and motion graphics for a spectrum of corporate and independent clients, including Disney, Cartoon Network, and Comedy Central. He is responsible for the concept and development of interactive presentations, identity systems, editorial design, marketing sales materials, and ad campaigns.
He is a writer and Print magazine contributing editor. His feature articles and critical essays appear in a variety of magazines and books, including Allworth Press' s Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, Graphic Design History, and Design Humor: The Art of Graphic Wit.
As an educator and lecturer, he has taught at Los Angeles-area colleges and universities, including UCLA. As a research consultant, Dooley advises agencies in matters of fine art, design, photography, film, and comics.
Upon graduation from Brooklynıs Pratt Institute, he was hired by ABC-TV as a photographer for The Johnny Cash Show in Nashville. He went on to work at newspapers including The Los Angeles Times, and contributed cartoon illustrations for editorial features. He wrote about the comics medium for Fantagraphics publications, first at Amazing Heroes and later at The Comics Journal, where his topics ranged from Little Nemo in Slumberland to Art Spiegelman and Raw magazine to reviews of comics art exhibitions.
For design publications he has covered LucasFilms Industrial Light and Magic visual effects studio; retro cartoon artists Coop, Shag, and the Pizz; graphic novelist and Spirit creator Will Eisner; web animators JibJab; the Batman; and Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants.
Allworth Press books written by Michael Dooley:
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