Mac Carter’s first foray into directing involved an elaborate hand-animation of a runaway meatball. You haven’t heard of that effort; Mac was 11 years-old. A couple decades later, his subject matter has changed (kind of) but his adventuresome spirit and devotion to craft has not.

As a graduate student at USC, Mac wrote and directed two award-winning short films that played at festivals around the world. Following school he worked in the commercial industry writing treatments and drawing storyboards for established directors until he decided with his friend, Jeff Blitz, to begin directing as a team which they did successfully at Anonymous Content for the likes of McDonalds, Nokia, MasterCard and Renault. With their unique blend of visual wit and wry comic storytelling, Carter & Blitz were featured in articles for Creativity and Shoot Magazine as directors to watch, as well as the Saatchi & Saatchi New Director’s Showcase. Their spot, “Happy Ending,” for the Mill Valley Film Festival, won multiple awards including a Golden Pencil at the One Show and a Bronze Lion at Cannes.

Since going solo at Anonymous Content, Carter has expanded his international client roster, directing humorous campaigns for companies such as Visa, Dunkin Donuts, SBC, Kelloggs and Jaguar. He still thinks often of meatballs. His reel can be viewed here.

Tony Salmons is an underground artist, it turns out. He’s drawn commercial comics but only to critical note. These have been few and far between with most of his professional work on storyboard for film/TV. For the record, he objects categorically to the appellation, “artist’s artist,” like a roadhouse theater troop regards overripe produce.

Salmons regards the current explosive renaissance of comic talent and content the greatest since Silver Age. He’s happy to have placed anywhere in the august line up in modern comics.

His sparkling personality and can-do attitude are bound to establish him as the Ms. Congeniality of the Lovecraft project and the spark plug of the team.

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Adam Byrne is a an enigma wrapped in a fish taco. He's still trying to figure out if he wants to be a comic book artist.

If you like his covers or colors, you might be able to persuade him to ditch his lucrative career in psychic pet readings.

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