User:Jesse Van Orton

Jesse Van Orton is an editor and producer with positions in television, radio, film, public speaking, voice-acting and comic art. Van Orton began submitting cartoons to King Features Syndicate at age 8 and continued submitting cartoons to the major syndicates until age 10 when he turned professional selling artwork to student newspapers.

He began his entertainment career as a magician and played the lead role in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Tallahassee Little Theater, later portraying a zombie in a 1979 student film. From 1979-to-1980 he contributed editorial artwork to WFSU-TV and Tallahassee Democrat.

In 1980 Van Orton attended The Joe Kubert School of Art in New Jersey graduating with Dean's List Honors in 1983 where he immediately began working at Marvel Comics as letterer and inker. He was a staff letterer in Marvel's Bullpen from 1987-to-1991. Van Orton worked as both staff and freelance artist for a variety of accounts: DC, Topps, Valiant, Scholastic, High Times, Marvel, Pepsi, Nabisco, Video Guia, 50 Plus, and Cracked Magazine. He was an active member of the Graphic Artists Guild of New York and produced cartoons for Guild publications.

In 1992 he produced news and comedy as an announcer and DJ in electronic media including stints at WGOW-FM, WSMC-FM, WFLI-AM, WCVC-AM, WTAL-AM, WYHB-TV, WTXL-TV, WTWC-TV and WGLF-FM. In the years 1992-to-1997 he was political cartoonist for The Tallahasean newspaper and The Southern Accent. In 2005 he authored the eBook "Conquer Fat Feel Better" which described his method of weight loss and strength training. In recent years he's been studying biological sciences and pharmacology.