Maxwell Atoms

Career

Maxwell Atoms studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Before working on his own series, he interned at Film Roman, worked as a freelance artist at Warner Bros., had a brief stint at WildBrain, and contributed to The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. He then got a job at Hanna-Barbera as a story and storyboard artist on Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel. On The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, he voiced Jeff the Spider and Piff; on Evil Con Carne, he voiced Cod Commando; and he provided additional voices for the TV-movie Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure.

Atoms is good friends with fellow animator Mr. Warburton, creator of Codename: Kids Next Door, and C. H. Greenblatt, creator of Chowder and Harvey Beaks and developer and executive producer of Jellystone!. He and Warburton made multiple references to each other's shows and created a crossover half-hour special, The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door. Greenblatt voiced Fred Fredburger in several episodes of Billy & Mandy, and a brief cameo of Chowder appeared in Underfist.

Atoms was also an executive producer and voice actor on the Disney show Fish Hooks with Noah Z. Jones. As of 2012, Atoms began developing a new project called Dead Meat, described as 'an awesome black comedy/buddy action/puppet gore web series.' A Kickstarter campaign succeeded on November 15, 2013. In a 2013 interview, he said the series would be posted online once finished, and in early 2014 he hoped for a 2015 release, but that fell through.

By early 2020, Atoms announced the project was shelved indefinitely and all backers would be refunded due to expensive costs and contractual issues. In 2016, he began working on a new series called Bunnicula. In 2019, he provided additional voices for the adult animated web series Hazbin Hotel, having met creator Vivienne Medrano during work on Dead Meat. He serves as a storyboard supervisor on The Patrick Star Show.