Gabriel Garcia

Gabriel Garcia was a registered sex offender, cartoonist, animator, writer, voice actor and film and television producer known for creating the Geo Universal, Gabriel Garza and MYCUN franchises.
== Biography ==
=== Early years ===
On April 5, 1954, Gabriel Garcia was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania to Bob Garcia (1925-1996) and Cindy Garcia (1932-2020), he grew up with his siblings in Berks County, Pennsylvania until the age of 15, he was introduced to animation through Disney films such as One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book and The Aristocats, but also through television shows such as Captain Kangaroo, Crusader Rabbit and Felix the Cat.
He and his family moved into the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1969, as a result of his father getting a job in nearby Glendale. His paternal uncle Ronald (1924-2001), who worked as an animator at Disney introduced him to the field of animation. Geo attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, where he worked for the school's newspaper "The Poly Optimist" as a cartoonist, which is where he started the Geo Comic. He graduated in 1972, he attended the California Institute of the Arts in 1974, where he graduated in 1978.
=== Hanna-Barbera, Geo-Wildshill Productions and Geo's World ===
In 1978, Garcia started working at Hanna-Barbera, with his first role at the company being a storyboard artist for Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, during this time he also founded Toon Group Inc. with fellow CalArts graduate Michael Wildshill, and various CalArts graduates, in the hopes of making an independent animated film, which became Topia, though during the production on Topia, Garcia worked on shows at Hanna-Barbera such as The Flintstone Comedy Show and Pac-Man.
Topia was released on June 22, 1981, the film was a box-office failure, ending up being one of the lowest-grossing animated films in 1981, Garcia and Windshill were already working on a new film based on the Clutch Cargo series and a short, called Landing, while Landing eventually released alongside the film Heidi's Song, the Clutch Cargo film was eventually cancelled, Topia was released on LaserDisc, Betamax and VHS by Worldvision Home Video, Inc., with this release Garcia and Wildshill hoped that they could recoup their losses on the theatrical release, although the home media release did perform better than the theatrical release, it was not enough to save Toon Group Inc., as the company filed for bankruptcy in January 1982, and Hanna-Barbera bought the company shortly after, making the company a subsidiary of Taft Broadcasting, Garcia and Wildshill decided to rename the company to Geo-Wildshill Productions.
In 1981, Garcia published the first comic strip of Geo's World, with the help of Multimedia and Universal Press Syndicate.
Garcia and Wildshill would work on five more films at Geo-Wildshill Productions, alot of them either did enough to recoup the money used for funding of the film or were successes, though the final films, Lerny the Top-Notch and Nay, both released in 1987, would end up losing so much money in the box office, that, against Garcia and Wildshill's wishes, the company was put up for sale, Garcia and Wildshill wanted to release on more film by Len Blum, but William Hanna and Joseph Barbera insisted on selling the company.
In 1988, Geo-Wildshill Productions was bought by Multimedia for 5 thousand dollars, which was about how much the company was worth, out of protest, Garcia left Hanna-Barbera after a decade of working there, Wildshill would leave to work at Geo-Wildshill Productions, though Multimedia would shut down the company, and make their own animation studio, Multimedia Animation, which Garcia would actually work with on occasion.
During this time, Garcia would found Glass Ball Productions, to produce a Geo's World animated series, Garcia was pitching the series to NBC, who found it to be risky to air a show like Geo's World on prime-time, even with the success of the comic, CBS who did not want a Geo's World series due to the executives considering the comic to be "too loose in humor", ABC originally said they did not want the show for being "too weird" but when Garcia was pitching the series to Disney for their upcoming The Disney Afternoon block, ABC retracted their claim, but due to Garcia having already sold the show to Disney and Columbia Pictures Television, ABC was only allowed to air the series during 1989, though due to Disney's buyout of Capital Cities, this would eventually change.
Geo's World turned out to be even more of a success than the comic and made a huge profit for Disney, Glass Ball and Columbia Pictures that they would greenlight a second season, which aired on various stations that The Disney Afternoon would air on later that year, though the season premiered in January and would air as part of said station's regular weekday children's programming.
=== Gabriel Garza and other work ===
Glass Ball Productions' next production would end up being Gabriel Garza, an animated series also created by Garcia and co-produced by Universal, which premiered on various television stations across the United States on March 16, 1991, the show, though not being an immediate success, would grow a following as the series went on.
Garcia would also go on to work on various films at Multimedia Animation, including Romeo and Juliet and the company's final film, Ghost Vision, 
=== Controversy, Arrest and Death ===
== Filmography ==
=== Films ===
* Topia (1981) - co-director, animator
* Ama and the Mysterious Crystal (1997) - executive producer
* Geo's 1st Movie (1997) - co-director
* Geo's 2nd Movie (2000)
* Geo's 3rd Movie (2005)
* Geo's 4th Movie (2008)
* Geo's 5th Movie (2010)
* Gabriel Garza (film) (2011) - director, writer, animator
* Geo's 6th Movie (2013)
* Gabriel Garza 2 (2014)
* Geo's 7th Movie (2016)
* Gabriel Garza 3 (2017)
* Geo's 8th Movie (2020)
=== Series ===
* Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979) - storyboard artist
* The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-1982) - animator
* Pac-Man (TV series) (1982-1983) - animator
* The Smurfs (1981 TV series) (1984) - animator (season 4 only)
* Geo's World (1989-2013) - creator, writer, animator, voice actor
* Gabriel Garza (TV series) (1991-2002, 2018-2022) - creator, writer, animator
* TeenV (1998-2022) - creator, writer, animator, voice actor
* Green Bob (1990-1992) - creator, writer, animator, voice actor
* Mr. Men & Little Miss (1995-1997) - writer, animator
* Hatty (1996-2002) - executive producer
* The Mr. Men Show (1997 TV series) (1997) - writer, animator (original Mr. Men & Little Miss segments)
* Jenny Zoom (2001-2004) - executive producer
* Planetokio (2002-2003) - executive producer
* Critter Mockers (2003-2009) - executive producer
* The Mr. Men Show (2008 TV series) (2008-2009) - writer, animator
* Donald's World (2013) - creator, writer, animator, voice actor
* Geo's Universe (2013-2022) - creator, writer, animator, voice actor
=== Short films ===
* Landing (1982) - animator