Interests:
John is a blend of artistic talent and computer geekiness. He spends his time balancing a futile art dream, building and maintaining web sites, and spending time with his wife and two daughters. During the day he is an Instructional Designer for the University of Notre Dame assisting faculty in getting content on a 50-foot dome theater system.

Duties:
John is the webmaster of Animation Insider and in the process of geeking the place out to make it a better place for internet visitors. It's taking forever because he's so busy.

Other web sites maintained:
http://www.john7.com

Interests:
A.I.'s Editor-in-Chief graduated a couple years ago with a B.A. English-Writing. Aaron's top two healthiest hobbies include closely following Eastern and Western animation and writing/research. A young scribe from the Midwest, Aaron divides most of his free time between his literary works and watching animation that offers the intangible. With a half-dozen years internet and print publishing experience, Aaron presently writes articles for AnimationInsider.net only.

Duties:
Please contact Aaron with any questions or concerns regarding site content, press inquiries, or job openings (Animation Insider is always looking for writers, reviewers and columnists).

Aaron's duties at Animation Insider inlude general site administration, forum administration, news and reviews content contribution and managing, and press liaison. He has been with Animation Insider since the Summer/Fall of 2003.

E-mail Contact: abynum.ai[at]gmail.com

News Submissions: news[at]animationinsider.net

Other web sites maintained:
News Editor: AnimationInsider.net / Animation News & Reviews Site

Title Reviewer: fpsMagazine.com / Online Animation Magazine|Archive ($1.49)
Editorialist & Title Reviewer: Animefringe.com / Online Anime Magazine|Archive (free)

Interests:
Kelsey enjoys several different mediums of animation, the most prominent of which being Asian works. He also loves more mature Western animation, but still makes room for good old Saturday morning cartoons. He also is a fanatic video game player.

Duties:
Kelsey joined Animation Insider in May of 2004, and despite a almost year long hiatus, he has remained a dedicated and determined member of the AI comunity.

He reviews mostly DVD releases of anime titles, but he also writes about televison programs.

Other web sites maintained:
http://epicwarrior.deviantart.com/

Interests:
Eric likes just about anything really. Whether it's a hike, swimming, playing video games, watching a movie, wandering around, or reading the dirty lines of a romance novel in a store, he's more than likely up for.

Reading is also a big thing thing of Eric's. Right now, he's switching between the Three Books of Occult Philosophy and a biography of Nikola Tesla.

Duties:
Anime review.

Other web sites maintained:
He doesn't maintain a site, but he works as a game content reviewer for www.gameheros.org.

Interests:
Kendall is graduating from Oklahoma Chrisitan University in December, and is currently a Youth Minister.

Kendall also serves as a cartoon analyst, writing and reviewing about different animated shows you see on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney, and works you see from independent animators.

Ever since Kendall was a kid he was actually analyzing cartoon characters from the dialogue to the gags to the storylines, but never bothered to write about them, until now!!

Kendall on his spare time does the obvious, watch alot of cartoons and just hangs out. On top of that, he also works as a News Assignments Editor / Writer for KFOR-TV Oklahoma's Newschannel 4.

Duties:
Kendall joined Animation Insider.net in January of 2005 to Review and Analyze animated shows of many types for all readers who are interested in a unique, new, and imaginative cartoon perspective.

Interests:
A graduate of the University of Central Florida with a BA in English - Creative Writing, Kimberly has become exactly what adults back in high school warned her about: A starving artist. Times may be hard for creative people, but that hasn't stopped her passion for writing. Though her muse is currently off on an epic quest without her and refusing to write so much as a postcard back, Kimberly continues to try her hand at publishing a novel. Until then, she exercises her passion through freelance work.

Kimberly has been an avid fan of animation for her entire life, and discovered the world of Japanese animation (anime) back in high school. She can be found attending many Southeastern US anime and sci-fi conventions in cosplay and generally geeking out.

Duties:
At the moment, Kimberly is on staff to provide domestic anime DVD reviews.

Other web sites maintained:
Webmaster & Member: www.ketchupkosplay.org

Interests:
Matthew is a college graduate with a degree in theatre. He is an actor and a part of a Radio Theatre group that performs old radio shows, including "The Shadow", "Lights Out", and "Suspense!". He has been in productions of The Bald Soprano (Mr. Martin), Tartuffe (Valère), Inherit the Wind (Bert Cates), The Curious Savage (Jeff), The Maltese Falcon (Wilmer), Dark of the Moon (Mr. Allen), and the lead in the world premiere of Last Night (Avery). He is a member of The Lobby improv team.

He is a huge baseball fan and loves the Dodgers. He can sit and read baseball stats like they are some great work of fiction. Matthew also enjoys X-Men, the music of Queen, Alice Cooper, Metallica and The Who, as well as taking the Jeep off-roading.

He is currently engaged (to Dissonance).

Duties:
Matthew is AI's forum director. He can be reached at captainwalrus@animationinsider.net.

Other web sites maintained:
http://thelobbyimprov.com

Interests:
Bryan does not currently attend any college, but will shortly. He was born in California, but after moved to Portland where he grew up and continues to live. Bryan's interests mostly include baseball, a Red Sox fan, animation, and comic books. He loves anything involving superheroes. Mostly the cartoons and comics. Some of his favorite comic book characters are Shadowcat, Deadpool, Jubilee, and Midnighter.

Duties:
Bryan is an administrator and keeps an eye on the discussion in General Animation and Disney forums.

Interests:
God said, "Let there be rock." And there Lisa was.

Lisa is a self-proclaimed comic nerd and her main fandom is the Fantastic Four. She is a diehard baseball fan. The San Francisco Giants are her boys, but she loves the Boston Red Sox too. She is currently attending community college and pursuing her goal of becoming a writer. She hopes to attend either SF State or Northridge (closer to her boyfriend, Matthew/Captain Walrus) eventually. Lisa also enjoys Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, music, the internet, Law & Order, Family Guy, and House. Lisa also regrets that Solano is incapable of eating metal.

Duties:
Lisa is a moderator in both the Community and Comic Book forums.

Interests:
Something stirs across the Atlantic ocean and it ain't pretty.

Chris is one of those people who doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already. From an early beginning on as a kid, Chris had a profound love for animation and it never went away, alas times have changed for in his home country it has become difficult to find the original quality cartoons that used to be so bounty full in the low lands. Thus it has become his quest to find the better animation outside the borders, and this how he came across Animation Insider.

There he enjoys discussing his favorite series such as Teen Titans, Avatar: "The Last Airbender" and Batman TAS/Beyond. During the daytime he is active as a logistical worker at the world's leading coffee machine manufacturing company.

As for other interests, Chris is a fanatical tabletop strategy gamer, he is also intrigued by ancient cultures & history, the latter mostly in the form of ancient and modern warfare. They do say terrible things comes in pairs as he also spends his time with his girlfriend who shares the same animation craze. When this does not take all of the time that is left, he loves to sit down and blow his frustrations away by painting or video gaming.

Currently Chris is considering in brushing up his German language skills.

Duties:
Chris is a moderator in the Drawing and Art Forum, as well as in the Multimedia section and the Avatar: The Last Airbender Forum.

Interests:
Solano's existence has never been fully proven and he is very bitter about this. Solano doesn't appear to have any actual skills. Solano regrets that he is incapable of eating metal. Important note: Solano does not like you.

Duties:
King of the Worthless is currently a moderator in the Community Center and the Debate and Discussion forum. He is nobody's fool except his own.

Interests:
Kyle originally hails from Long Island, NY, where he attended school with the founder of AI, Vin. He currently lives in the Pocono’s. He recently graduated from Northampton Community College with an Associates in Electronics Technology.

Kyle's interests include baseball, pro wrestling, hockey, football, skateboarding, animation, computers, and all things Television. Some of his favorite shows include Digimon, Sailor Moon, Kim Possible, South Park, The Tick, Smallville, Power Rangers, House, Law and Order, The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, My Name is Earl, Instant Star, and Degrassi.

Duties:
Kyle is a moderator of the General Animation and Entertainment Forums, and he posts news articles from time to time. He can be reached at kyle.luna[at]animationinsider.net.

Other web sites maintained:
Cable TV Talk - Forum Administrator
TV.com:
- Editor: Power Rangers, 'Til Death, TNA iMPACT!, Free Ride, The Tony Danza Show, WWE Jakked, ECW Hardcore TV, WCW Clash of the Champions
el Fuñaroboard - Forum Moderator
RadioTime.com - Volunteer Content Administrator

Interests:
Daniel is currently a full-time student at Vanderbilt University, where his major is Mechanical Engineering. Aside from the work related to that, he uses what free time he can muster to pursue his interest in animation, along with science fiction and fantasy, and other pastimes such as video games and reading. His favorite shows include FMA, Inuyasha, Naruto, and Teen Titans.

Duties:
Daniel is a moderator of the Community Center forum.

Interests:
Having a childhood in the 1980’s helped Preston develop a lifelong love of virtually all things animated, particularly those in the action genre. This love of animation in turn launched a long and somewhat boring trail across the interweb that eventually landed him at Animation Insider’s doorstep. Other interests include science fiction, superheroes, instrumental music, and RPGs. Although he will proudly admit that he has never pnp’d or LARP’d in his life.

Preston also devotes a small portion of his life to helping maintaining Cody’s site: ANX Toonami. Currently he is attempting to make Cody’s hair fall out through sheer frustration.

Preston is also a founding member of Animation Insider.

Duties:
At Animation Insider, Preston moderates the ANX Toonami forum along with all its sub-forums. And for reasons he’s not quite sure of Preston has also been suckered into creating Adult Swim Action talkback threads for Cody on the Adult Swim forum.

Other web sites maintained:
ANX Toonami

Interests:
Scott is a true Renaissance geek, dabbling in roleplaying, cartoons, computer games, fantasy and science fiction of all stripes, and theater. He can usually be found Storytelling a World of Darkness game, fencing, rehearsing for a play of some sort, or simply staring vacantly off into space. In his spare time, Scott is a student at Tulane University, where he's majoring in Biomedical Engineering.

Duties:
Scott is currently a moderator of the Teen Titans forums, where he, Remix17 and Red X Robin try to play "Good Cop" to Sphere's "Take You Outside And Beat You With The Common Sense Stick Cop."

Interests:
Ambition, Self-Actualization, Mythology, DC Animation, Fashion, and Literature.

Duties:
Michael has been a moderator with Animation Insider since 2004. He also is the webmaster of the DC Animated Universe Resource fansite for the modern animated series such as Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Teen Titans, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. It is now covering the DC Universe line of Direct to Video Movies and the soon to release DC Showcase.

Michael also contributes to Animation Insider News with DVD, Music, and Television Reviews. His first assignment at the Insider was as a Reporter. The forums he moderated over the years were Justice League, ANX Toonami, and Cartoon Network/Warner.

Other web sites maintained:
DCAU Resource

Interests:
A graduate from New England Institute of Technology with his Associates in Multimedia and Web Development Technology, Cody's interests lie specifically within the technological aspects of art; only further proven by his undying interest and obsession with computer animation. The possibilities of creating a whole new world or visual treat in a digital realm is a prospect Cody continually likes to explore, test, and create. He shares an admiration and love for all forms of animation, and works at Animation Insider with the hopes of connecting with people who feel the same.

On his down-time, Cody finds himself neck-deep in time intensive art projects. While as of late he has dabbled in 3D art, such as sculpture and other installation art, his strengths mostly lie in a 2D medium. He is currently enrolled in school at the University of Vermont working towards his bachelors in Studio Art and minor in Sociology. He loves Pop Culture. Yum.

Cody spends the remainder of his time working on Toonami: Absolution Next, a site he's owned and maintained for the greater part of 4 years. In the past, Cody has also worked diligently on other sites, for the Animation Insider network and abroad.

Cody is also a founding member of Animation Insider.

Duties:
At Animation Insider, Cody moderates the Artwork and Adult Swim forums, along with moderating the forum for his site, ANX. Cody also serves as a forum administrator, and assists in design related aspects of the site such as banner creation and theme.

Cody also occasionally contributes to the news section of Animation Insider.

Other web sites maintained:
www.anxtoonami.com
www.deborahsalebutler.com
The Palace 9
E-mail Contact: absolution [at] gmail.com

Interests:
Vincent Benenati was born and raised on Long Island in New York. The eldest of six children, he is currently attending Seton Hall University, majoring in media communications. Hobbies include writing, watching countless movies, listening to music, and posting on the Animation Insider message forums. His goal is to eventually work in television and/or film after he graduates from college.

Vincent has been honored locally for his writing in local literary magazines and in other venues. He also serves as a religious education instructor in his spare time.

Duties:
Vincent founded Animation Insider in 2003 and parted in 2005 to pursue a sister site known as aiFandom, a site dedicated to Superhero discussion.

Other web sites maintained:
http://www. aifandom.com