About the Author

Joshua Winthrop

FULL NAME: Joshua Paul Winthrop

BORN: May 19th, 1984

ALIGNMENT: Good

SUPERPOWERS: Total command over this webcomic

LIKES: Drawing, cartoons/anime, video games (especially Nintendo), reading webcomics, pasta, bubble wrap, being festive around holidays, taking relaxing walks, nature, my old college's Chicken Strips of Fire, WWE, Weird Al Yankovic, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Scrubs, the Colbert Report, using the word "discombobulated"

DISLIKES: Bagpipes, country music without techno mixed in, XBox, people quoting Dave Chappelle's celebrity imitations, people mispronouncing my last name (It's pronounced "WIHN-thrup"), violence (except for video game violence, cartoon violence, and WWE. It's REAL violence spawned by hatred and perhaps a little stupidity that I oppose)

FAVE VIDEO GAMES: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Earthworm Jim 2, Earthworm Jim 3D, Luigi's Mansion, Clayfighter 63 1/3, Donkey Kong Country 2, Family Guy: The Video Game, Kingdom Hearts 1/CoM/2, Dr. Mario, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, the original Simpsons Arcade Game

FAVE CARTOONS: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Particularly the original 80's cartoon), Codename: Kids Next Door, The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, SpongeBob SquarePants, Sonic the Hedgehog (SaTaM), The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, nearly any episode of Looney Tunes with Daffy Duck

Hello, I’m Josh Winthrop, and I’m the guy who runs this webcomic. You will now commence bowing down to me. Seriously, bow down. Oh come on, not even a little bow? Aw, man …

Anyhoo, I’ve been drawing seemingly all my life, gradually moving up the ladder in terms of my status as an artist. I started out by drawing pictures of all my favorite cartoon characters, when I was about 3 or so. Cartoons fascinated me, as they do most children. But for me, there was something … different. I was totally enthralled, and continued to be as such to this very day. I immersed myself in their two-dimensional worlds. I imagined making friends with them, or even being them. I could talk someone’s ear off all day long about a single character … and I often did. Needless to say, I drew them constantly, While most kids were drawing horses, cars, and family members, I was drawing Daffy Duck, Raphael, and Super Mario. The drawings were crude, but still more advanced than those of other children. I paid attention to details that other children might not notice, like drawing six curved parts on the bottom of Mario’s mustache, or remembering to add the area where Raphael’s bandana tied up in the back. My parents and teachers could tell that I was going to be an artist when I grew up.

As I grew, so did my skills. I took classes in cartooning to develop my skills further. I had gone from someone who drew to an art student. The first time I was really challenged in art was in high school, though, where my teacher encouraged me to use different media and not always take the cartoony approach. Though this was frustrating at times, I had an excellent art teacher who put up with me when I was the most stressed or stubborn, and helped guide me through these projects. Though cartooning is still my passion, I still felt as though I learned something from working with other media (Nonetheless, please don’t ask me to do an oil painting. I am far less skilled with a brush than I am with a pencil).

When I came to college, I originally was enrolled as an English/Art major, but soon changed to Education/Digital Media. Art was more fine arts-type stuff; Digital Media had what I truly wanted to do. It was here that we worked with Flash, Maya, Photoshop, and other programs to create art on the computer. Needless to say, I took advantage of Flash and Maya to create and animate cartoons. My drawing skills, however, were (and still are) far more advanced than my animation skills, although I’m working on improving that. Who knows; one day, The Heroes of C.R.A.S.H. might be a webtoon, if I’m lucky! But I’m just starting out with a webcomic, so one thing at a time …

I’m out of college, and still very much fascinated by cartoons. Odds are that seventy years from now when I’m a toothless old man, I’ll probably still be watching cartoons every Saturday morning. And that’s the way it should be. It’s okay to regress a little and watch cartoons; I think, in fact, that it’s emotionally healthy. Like the old saying goes, “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!”

Anyhoo, if you want to contact me, drop a line to Heroesofcrash @yahoo.com. I appreciate all feedback, complements, critiques, suggestions, or whatever else you have to say, so long as you show proper netiquette (In other words, no insults and no spam). And though it’s not required, it’d make things easier for me if actually use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization (It’s somewhat difficult and really annoying to read e-mails that use all caps, no punctuation, or bad grammar).

For my portfolio, click here.

For my portfolio's cover letter, click here.

For my resume, click here.