Ian D. Marsden is an internationally published cartoonist, illustrator, animator, character designer and children\'s book writer and illustrator.
His artwork ranges from highly detailed traditional pen and ink drawings and watercolors to striking digital illustrations created in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Corel Painter. His humor can sometimes be very satirical and even macabre and then again he can turn on a dime and create sweet stories and characters for younger audiences as well. He has sold cartoons to such publications as MAD magazine, the New Yorker and many others worldwide.
Born in Greenwich Village, New York, Ian\'s family later moved to Zürich, Switzerland where he spent formative school and lycee years and studied graphic design. Ian later lived and worked in Paris, New York (where he also attended Illustration-related courses at Pratt Manhattan), Barbados and Los Angeles, CA.
In addition to working as an artist he also became very interested in web design and Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash animation. An original co-founder of Sham Records Multimedia based in Santa Monica, he worked on a wide variety of cutting-edge Shockwave and Flash interactive web sites and animations when these technologies were just emerging.
In 1999 Ian became the first artist to draw the so-called \'Google Doodles\' for a just emerging upstart company called Google.com. He has also created web graphics, flash animation, posters and album covers for such clients as infospace.com, birthdayalarm.com, Fox Sports Best Damn Sports Show Period, La Toya Jackson and many others. In 2001 Ian was one of the winners of the Klasky Csupo Global Tantrum animated joke competition and in 2002 Ian was nominated for the National Cartoonist Society\'s NCS New Media award.
In 2002 Ian graduated from the Academy of Entertainment Technology (AET), Santa Monica College as a computer animation major. He was the recipient of the Mary Pickford scholarship.
Ian addition to the above Ian has also designed characters and mascots for major events such as the official mascot for the Ski World Championship 2003 in St. Moritz and was a consultant on designing the main mascot and characters for all arteplages of Expo.02.
Ian lives with his wife and 2 daughters in southern France.
