Eric Trueheart is passionate for animation, science-fiction, comedy, comics, and anything that makes this world a little bit stranger. This also includes talking about himself in the third-person.
Don’t believe him? Behold his third-person résumé HERE!
For nearly twenty years, Eric has written, voice-directed, or somehow been involved in animation. In that time, he managed to work for just about every toon-slinger in town: Netflix, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Disney XD, PBS, the Hub Network, DreamWorks, and yeah even that YouTube thing.
He wrote for Nickelodeon’s shameful-and-enduring cult classic, INVADER ZIM, wrote and voice-directed on Disney XD’s BAFTA-nominated YIN YANG YO, and he helped develop the DreamWorks animation film TURBO into the first animated series for Netflix, which, incidentally, was nominated for a DAYTIME EMMY. (Neat-o!)
Eric has sold and developed original pilots for Cartoon Network and Disney XD, both animated and live-action, and has helped folks like .
His comedy shorts have been featured the L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival, Funny or Die, and Awesomeness TV. His comedy group, THE MINISTRY OF UNKNOWN SCIENCE, had a top-ten comedy podcast on iTunes, won praise from the Times and the Weekly, and even garnered pilots from Spike and Sci-Fi Network. (It also got them a lovely meeting with Simon Cowell, who’s a really nice guy in person, and doesn’t bite the heads of babies unless you ask him nicely.)
Recently, Eric has been splitting his time between helping Cartoon Network develop a new action/comedy, writing cartoon shorts based on Japan’s longest-running zombie comic, writing issues of Oni Press’ INVADER ZIM comic, and occasionally finding time to put out a “very special episode” of his podcast, THE ARMY OF DRUNKS.
Eric graduated from USC cinema school and Harvard university, for no reason. He has never driven a race car across Monaco wearing only a Batman mask and the words “Soy Bomb” on his chest. That was someone else.
Whenever horses laugh. Whenever darkness falls upward. Whenever the clouds rain chocolate coins and the birds scream Barry Manilow’s “Mandy” in Esperanto… he’ll be there.
To reach Eric, contact him directly at: eric dot trueheart at gmail dot com
He doesn’t believe in social media any more. Like Santa Claus, it just let him down too many times.