About R.J. CHRISTENSEN
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Born while John Kennedy was still alive, RJ's lifelong fascination with the fantastic was started by too many episodes of "Herculoids", "Space Ghost", "Thunderbirds", and "Johnny Quest", as well as overdoses of Dr Seuss and Maurice Sedak's "Where the Wild Things Are". An overall imaginative child, he would create a myriad of worlds from his surroundings. In his formative years, Japanese Monster movies, Jules Verne adaptations, Ray Harryhausen films, "Planet of the Apes", Star Trek, Halloween specials, the Night Stalker, and Marvel comics further molded his mind. He made his own comic books, set in far off solar system where intelligent animals, magic users, and alien abounded. He also drew his own Spy Vs Spy cartoons. As a teenager, he discovered Star Wars, Ray Bradbury, and Dungeons & Dragons, but switched from drawing to computers, intending to make that a career. Having meandered through the forest of Weird Teen Science media in the 80s, he hit upon the weird fantasy works of H.P. Lovecraft, cheesy 60s Spy adventures, and later, the X-Files, of which he would become an international known fan writer for. |
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In 1999, RJ glimpsed upon 3 photos of a bespectacled JK Rowling in the local Atlanta newspaper and it was love at first sight. Plus, she was funny and wrote pretty good, too. He picked up a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and became a fan on page 1. And because of Ms Rowling, RJ made up his mind to re-pursue his childhood love of art and drawing and threw himself into animation school. It was here that he learned the skills in creating the art that Joyleaf has so gratefully opted to display. RJ abides by the words of Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen: "Let us Grow Old, but Never Grow Up" |
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RJ Christensen