Steve Purcell

Steven Ross "Steve" Purcell is an American cartoonist, animator, director, game designer, and voice actor. He is most widely known as the creator of Sam & Max, an independent comic book series about a pair of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators, for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007. Since being a comic, the series has grown to incorporate an animated television series and several video games. A graduate of the California College of Arts and Craft, Purcell began his career creating comic strips for the college newsletter. He performed freelance work for Marvel Comics and Fishwrap Productions before publishing his first Sam & Max comic in 1987. Purcell was hired by LucasArts as an artist and animator in 1988, working on several titles within the company's adventure games era.
Purcell collaborated with Nelvana to create a Sam & Max television series in 1997, and briefly worked as an animator for Industrial Light and Magic after leaving LucasArts. He is currently employed in the story development department at Pixar. Much of his work for the animation studio has been with the 2006 film Cars and spin-off materials, such as shorts and video games. His most recent work was as head of story and co-director for Brave. Despite his employment with Pixar, Purcell has continued to work with comic books and came together with Telltale Games in 2005 to bring about new series of Sam & Max video games.
He also performed the voice of the Tractors in Cars, Sandy Dunes in The Radiator Springs 500½, Carl Fredricksen in George and A.J. after Ed Asner declined, The Crow in Brave, the Bensons in Toy Story 4, and Deep Dark Secret in Inside Out 2.
==Feature Film Filmography==
===Pixar===
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
2006	Cars 	Additional Screenplay Material/Voice Actor (Tractors)	Pixar
2007	Ratatouille 	Production Crew 	Pixar
2012	Brave 	Co-Director/Screenplay/Voice Actor (The Crow) 	Pixar
2019	Toy Story 4 	Voice Actor (The Bensons) 	Pixar
2024	Inside Out 2	Voice Actor (Deep Dark Secret) 	Pixar
==Animated Shorts Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Subsidiary
2006	Mater and the Ghostlight 	Additional Character Designer/Voice Actor (Screamin' Banshee) 	Pixar
2008	Cars Toons 	Additional Voice Talent/Additional Voice/Voice Actor (Sandy Dunes)	Pixar
2009	George and A.J. 	Voice Actor (Carl Fredricksen) 	Pixar
2012	The Legend of Mor'du 	Writer/Voice Actor (Crow) 	Pixar
2014	Toy Story That Time Forgot	Writer/Director/Voice Actor (Cleric) 	Pixar
==Gameography==
Year 	Video game 	Position	Notes
2014 & 2018 (re-releases; originally released in 1993)	Sam & Max Hit the Road	Designer	Originally released by LucasArts; re-released by Disney Interactive on GOG.com and Steam in 2014 and 2018 respectively.
==Roles==
Profile - Tractor.png|Tractors(Cars franchise)
Mater-&-ghostlight-screamin-banshee.jpg|The Screamin' Banshee(Mater and the Ghostlight)
Carl Fredricksen - George and AJ.jpg|Carl Fredricksen(George and A.J.)
Profile - Crow (Brave).jpg|The Crow(Brave)
Profile - Sandy Dunes.jpg|Sandy Dunes(Cars Toons)
TSTTF-cleric-intro.jpg|The Cleric(Toy Story That Time Forgot)
Bensons.png|Bensons(Toy Story 4)
Profile - Deep Dark Secret.png|Deep Dark Secret(Inside Out 2)
==Gallery==
Steve Purcell Brave premiere.jpg|Steve Purcell at the premiere of Brave in June 2012.
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