Doug Rice

Douglas E. Rice (born November 26, 1950) is a comic-book artist, writer and television animator living in the Chicago area. Working on-staff with First Comics in 1982, Doug was given the opportunity to create an 8-page back-up series for the monthly title, MARS. With the guidance of John Ostrander, Rice created the first original giant-robot series in America back in 1984, DYNAMO JOE. The back-up series continued in FIRST ADVENTURES, then under its own banner, DYNAMO JOE, lasting 15 issues (with a cross-over/one-shot in GRIM-JACK). John Ostrander adapted the material to scripts for the first-run, with Phil Foglio picking up the scripting chores for the bulk of the series thereafter.

Rice would go on to draw and co-write (w/ Phil Foglio) the initial STARBLAZERS mini-series for Comico, then move on to DC Comics to contribute layouts and gags to the Foglio/Barta
PLASTIC-MAN mini-series, then doing art for the John Ostrander/Kim Yale version of MANHUNTER
in 1988. Rice followed up by teaming with Hilary Barta on several short humor-based super- hero parodies for Marvel's WHAT THE--?! (as co-writer and one-time artist) and TOXIC AVENGER (as co-writer). His next significant work was for Disney Comics, doing monthly 8-page ROGER RABBIT/MICKEY MOUSE fillers until all new material on old characters was cancelled. In 1994, Doug moved into the field of TV-animation, working for a small Chicago-area animation studio, Startoons, doing work for Warner Brothers.

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