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James Garland Quintel is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network series Regular Show (2010–2017), in which he voiced Mordecai and High Five Ghost, and the HBO Max series Close Enough (2020–2022), in which he voiced Josh.
J.G. Quintel is the creator and voice of Mordecai in Regular Show, a popular animated series on Cartoon Network. He also worked on other shows like The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, and Close Enough.
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- Overview
- Early life
- Other shows and movies
- Career
- Boarded episodes
- Directed episodes
- Voice credits
- Personal life
- Top Ten Favorite Episodes
James Garland Quintel, , or simply known as JG Quintel (pronounced Quin-tell), is the creator of Regular Show. He also voices Mordecai and Hi-Five Ghost after his introductory episode.
Outside from Regular Show, he is also the creator of the HBO Max series Close Enough and has worked with other shows on Cartoon Network such as The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Camp Lazlo, and Adventure Time.
Quintel was born on September 13, 1982, in Kings County, California,, the son of Terri (née Morris), and James Allen Quintel (b. 1952). He has one younger brother, named Payton Dean (b. 1984), who enjoys playing bass guitar. The brothers bonded by using Lego men and crude paper cutouts to create several short film projects for school, noting that this was a different approach compared to others who used dioramas, presentation boards, and writing papers. Quintel also attended art classes as a child.
Growing up he watched quite a few cartoons that he claimed helped inspire him to make his own cartoon: The Simpsons, Beavis and Butt-Head, Rocko's Modern Life, The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Smurfs, He-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Ghostbusters, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, Animaniacs, Batman: The Animated Series, TailSpin, Bobby's World and other cartoons made by Warner Bros. and Disney.
He began attending high school in Hanford, California in 1997 and graduated shortly after May 2000.
After high school, Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts, also known as "CalArts", as part of a summer program. However, it wasn't as easy to attend afterward. He was not accepted at first, causing him to feel "a bit depressed". He would attend two other colleges, College of the Sequoias and College of the Canyons in the meantime while trying to get accepted in CalArts. He would eventually be accepted in. JG obtained an internship at Cartoon Network Studios to work on the Star Wars: Clone Wars television series. Quintel had originally wanted to be an animator, but when he learned how much work it involved he decided to focus more on being a storyboard artist.
In the past, JG Quintel has worked on numerous other television shows and movies such as The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Camp Lazlo, Horton Hears a Who, 2 In the AM PM and The Naïve Man From Lolliland. (all information may be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Quintel)
He is now working on an adult animated show on HBO Max called Close Enough, which premiered on July 9, 2020. He also voices the main character once again.
College films
One of his first films as an animator was in "2 in the AM PM". It is notably much more vulgar than Regular Show, including swearing and drug use, but it does have some of the same character ideas and voices as in Regular Show. Quintel later entered 2 in the AM PM at the 2007 Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Another film he made was "The Naive Man from Lolliland" in which Sam Marin voiced all of the characters, including the waiter and a prototype Pops. This short was made from a draw of adding words in a hat, with whatever word someone got they had to make a short based on that word. Quintel received "lollipop", thus creating the Lolliland short. Lolliland later won an award at the Nicktoons Film Festival. J.G. also planned to create another short film in college (which was where the Mordecai character was created), but the short was never completed. The plot was about animals escaping from a zoo. Rigby was created after Quintel drew a raccoon on a post-it note while working on Flapjack. While still attending CalArts, he worked as a storyboard artist on Camp Lazlo.
Flapjack and Regular Show
After graduating from CalArts in 2006, he worked as an animator in the credits of the 2008 movie Horton Hears a Who! and as a storyboard artist on the Phineas and Ferb episode, "Jerk de Soleil". He has worked with Thurop Van Orman (of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack fame) and Pendleton Ward (of Adventure Time fame) at least once. He was a regular crew member on Flapjack and helped write the Adventure Time episode, "Ocean of Fear", before leaving to work on his own creation: Regular Show. Quintel created Regular Show as a short and potential series for Cartoonstitute, a show that showed shorts by people who wanted to try to get a show picked up, similar to What a Cartoon!. He used the characters from his college films to make the short. Original titles considered for the show included Normal Show and Weird Show, with JG deciding the latter was "too on the nose." Although Quintel thought the show lacked commercial appeal, the show was nonetheless greenlit in 2009. When JG was asked what the influences for the show were, he replied: "I grew up on The Simpsons. I also really liked Rocko’s Modern Life and I was lucky enough to work on Camp Lazlo as well. Some of the stylistic elements of those shows worked their way into my style. The round eyes, the Muppet-looking characters, these were elements that I grew up with and studied at school." After being asked what he plans in the future, Quintel answered: "I want to keep going with Regular Show. Then eventually, I’d like to make another show. I’ll probably take a big break, catch my breath, then start looking around and try to develop something new."
Quintel notes that he had storyboarded episodes more often in the first two seasons, but as other storyboard artists had adjusted more to the setting and drawing the characters, he began storyboarding less as a result in the third season. Nonetheless, he still oversaw production on the show as executive producer and showrunner and was still a membe...
Season 4
1."The Christmas Special" (with Mike Roth)
Season 5
1."The Thanksgiving Special" (with Mike Roth)
Season 6
1."The Real Thomas"
Quintel provides the voice of Mordecai and uses his regular speaking voice to voice him. When asked why he made the decision to voice Mordecai, Quintel responded: "I had done the voice of Mordecai in my student film, so when it came up and I was making a short I really wanted to do the voice again because I felt like he was already done. But the studio actually made me try out real actors because I’m not an actor and we did a whole casting call. We tried out a bunch of different voices, but in the end, I really wanted to be Mordecai and I got to be [him]." Quintel also auditioned to voice other characters on the show. In addition to Mordecai, he also voices Hi-Five Ghost, and has voiced him since "Caffeinated Concert Tickets", replacing Jeff Bennett, who voiced the character in his debut episode "Just Set Up the Chairs". The reason for the casting change is unknown.
As he is not a working voice actor for other shows, Quintel mainly voices the two above. Nonetheless, he occasionally provided voices for background characters, such as the Baby Ducks.
The following list below contains the characters Quintel is credited for voicing.
Season 1
1."The Power" - Mordecai
2."Just Set Up the Chairs" - Mordecai
Quintel resides in Los Angeles, California. He is married to Cassia Streb; they have one daughter name Lynn Streb Quintel.
Quintel's favorite movie is Wes Anderson's Rushmore. Regular Show has made a reference to Wes Anderson by naming the fictional highschool after him.
In an official Cartoon Network video, JG was asked his 10 favorite episodes, which he listed as:
1.The Power
2.TGI Tuesday
3.Terror Tales of the Park (Specifically Creepy Doll)
4.The Last Laserdisc Player
5.A Bunch of Full Grown Geese
Sep 25, 2012 · Hot Topic took a trip to the Cartoon Network in Los Angeles to visit with "Regular Show" Creator J.G. Quintel.
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J.G. Quintel. Writer: Regular Show. James Garland Quintel, or simply JG, was born on September 14, 1982, in Hanford, CA, to Terri (nee Morris) and James Quintel.
- September 13, 1982
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