James Eatock

James Douglas Eatock (born 21 August 1977) is an English freelance animator, designer, writer and publisher. He is commonly known on the Internet as Busta Toons.
Early life
Eatock grew up watching cartoons, primarily shows from the 1980s, which led to an interest in animation.
Career
In 2001, Eatock's animated short Soopa Don Boogie aired on BBC as part of its "BBC Talent" program.
Eatock co-produced extra content for the 2003 UK DVD release of Masters of the Universe for Contender Entertainment Group. He wrote a Masters of the Universe encyclopedia for MVCreations, which was canceled after only one issue due to disagreements with Mattel.
BCI Eclipse
From 2005-2008 James worked with MVCreations on many DVD titles from BCI Eclipse including He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, The New Adventures of He-Man, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, Defenders of the Earth, Dungeons & Dragons, Filmation's Ghostbusters, Bravestarr and many more. His role primarily involved writing the synopses, character profiles and trivia, naming the chapter points, and researching material for the documentaries produced by Andy Mangels.
In 2008 James assisted in producing The Real Ghostbusters DVD set for Time-Life. In addition to researching a wealth of material for the content that would eventually appear on the DVDs James also assisted in the documentaries themselves traveling to California. As well as formulating questions for each of the interviewees, he himself interviewed Marsha Goodman, Kevin Altieri and Dan Riba. He was later interviewed for the set by Andy Mangels and performed three episode audio commentaries.
Eatock launched cereal:geek, a 100-page quarterly magazine dedicated to the animated shows from the 1980s that ran from 2007 to 2014.
James Eatock and Dan Schoening worked together on a Ghostbusters comic pitch which was sent to IDW Publishing (the current owners of the Ghostbusters comic book license).<ref name=NY/> Although the pitch did not result in any immediate work, the on-line debut of the pitch created much excitement. After the pitch was showcased on the New York Daily News' website, James and Dan were asked to contribute a story to IDW's Ghostbusters "Haunted Holidays" trade paperback. He penned the story "Guess What's Coming To Dinner?", which Dan illustrated. When IDW went ahead with their regular series with Dan as the artist, James was not hired.
In October 2014 Eatock was hired to work on The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe published by Dark Horse Comics. He contributed the text, artwork, and suggested layout to the Filmation chapter of the book. He also contributed the rarely-seen unpublished Masters of the Universe minicomic "Return From Terror Island!" to Dark Horse's forthcoming He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Minicomic Collection. He also worked on and published "He-Man and She-Ra: A Complete Guide to the Classic Animated Adventures" which was published by Dark Horse on Aug 25th 2016 in the United States and later on Sept. 15th of the same year in the UK. He also contributed to the book "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: A Character Guide and World Compendium", which was published in 2017.

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