This is an accepted version of this page James Garland Quintel is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, producer, and voice actor.

Quintel served as a creative director for Thurop Van Orman's The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008–2010), as well as writer and storyboard artist for Joe Murray's Camp Lazlo (2006–2008), both of which aired on Cartoon Network.

[1][2] Quintel often played the video game ToeJam & Earl, the influence of which he later described as "the perfect platform" for Regular Show protagonists Mordecai and Rigby.

[6] At CalArts, Quintel and about 20 fellow students, including now-voice artist Sam Marin, developed their short films by throwing title names (such as "lollypop" or "candy") into a hat, drawing them out, and reading them aloud at midnight as a warm-up, where they would each then rush back to their desks in a marathon effort to make a film in 48 hours based on the one word drawn.

[1] In the spring of 2005, this CalArts process led Quintel to put together a short animated film about an ambassador who loses his cool during a benign encounter.

At CalArts, Quintel would also meet another student by the name of Pendleton Ward, with whom he would later work with on the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

[12] In 2 in the AM PM, two slackers are left alone to run a convenience store/gas station on Halloween night, where candy filled with drugs creates a mini-nightmare.

[14] The agreement upon the premise of Regular Show was that the series would be about two park groundskeepers, Mordecai (a 6-foot blue jay) and Rigby (a hyperactive raccoon),[15] who try to entertain themselves at their jobs while doing anything they can to avoid work and escape their everyday boredom.

[19] However, his Regular Show series was beat out for the award by the ABC animated special, Disney Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa.

[1] Following Regular Show's conclusion in January 2017, Quintel announced the creation of Close Enough, an adult animated series about a young couple and their daughter in Los Angeles.