Dave King is a director, script writer, storyboard artist and producer.
He began his career in comic books, writing and drawing for Marvel Comics UK, Fleetway Publications, and DC Thomson on strips including Count Duckula, Rugrats, Barbie, Beetlejuice, and Dennis the Menace. King worked extensively with Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing and DC Comics on Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, and Pinky and the Brain.
In 1996, he co-art directed the music video, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, by the band U2, from the movie, Batman Forever. The video won an MTV European Music award and was selected by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest animated music videos ever.
Moving into animation, King worked with the UK’s leading animation houses, including Cosgrove Hall, and Collingwood O’Hare, storyboarding on shows including Andy Pandy, Engie Benjy, and Pond Life.
In a long association with Cartoon Network UK, King worked on promo material for shows from Scooby Doo and The Flintstones to Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd n Eddy and The Powerpuff Girls. He was animation director on the channel’s first in-house series: VBirds, and a scriptwriter for the live action/animation quiz show, Skatoony.
His work covers films, TV, advertising and the music industry, for clients including the BBC, Nickelodeon, MTV, Hot Animation, Kai-tama Entertainment, and Passion Pictures.
After his relocation to Norway, King founded an animation studio, was a producer on the documentary A Life in the Death of Joe Meek and spent a decade teaching animation and filmmaking at universities across Norway, Denmark, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom.
In 2020 he founded Dave King Creative, a company dedicated to developing original film and television projects from concept to screen. The current slate includes the animated feature My Little Kaiju and the live-action horror feature Dayan.
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