M. Wartella / Bio

About The Artist

M. WARTELLA is the award-winning Village Voice cartoonist who was profiled by The New York Times as a pioneer of online animation in 1998.

Wartella's distinctive cartoons currently appear in new episodes of Warner Bros.' MAD on Cartoon Network, the all-animated weekly primetime show which debuted to rave reviews in 2010 and was renewed for a second season in 2011.

Wartella has previously drawn animated segments for MTV’s cult hit WONDER SHOWZEN (2005-2006) and was a writer for the late-night animated Adult Swim program SUPERJAIL!, (Season One, 2008). Wartella was also a collaborator on the animated portion of feature film The Ten (2007).

As an illustrator and cartoonist, Wartella has contributed to publications including Interview, SPIN, Arthur, Vice, and Nickelodeon Magazine. He has created jacket art for best-selling books from Houghton Mifflin and Touchstone/Fireside, and is a creative contributor to the WACKY PACKAGES line of collectable trading cards from Topps.

His sequential artwork is featured in D.C. Comics’ Bizarro World anthology as well as the Eisner and Harvey Awards nominated HOTWIRE anthology from FANTAGRAPHICS books.