We’ve been called weird. We’ve been labeled “naive.” We’ve been looked at… askance.
This is good.
We believe that what we put into the world is what we get out of it. Every time we introduce a piece of art, a joke, a toy or game that makes someone smile, we are making life easier for a bit. That feeling is contagious. When we’re happy, we want to make others happy, too.
This is the spirit that drives the Sparky Firepants bus. We’re serious about having fun.
We’re the optimists and the court jesters. We daydream about giant monsters sharing a snack in downtown Toledo. Our fish ride unicycles and our pirates drink juice boxes.
Welcome. We’re glad you came.
Wearing the Firepants
David
Chief Pants, Creative Visionary, Inventor
With a career rooted in film and television, David has worked with the likes of Mel Gibson, Ray Charles, and a cartoon puppy named Blue.
His artwork has appeared in Highlights High Five magazine, The Electric Company, Smilebox, Wired, Blue’s Clues, and all over the web. His work has won super duper awards, including a Daytime Emmy nomination and an animation production award that was created specifically for him.
Now he runs the day-to-day operations and serves as creative visionary of Sparky Firepants Images, Inc., the company he founded in 2007.
Sparky Firepants designs are created both digitally and by hand. David’s tools of choice are the Adobe Design Suite on a Macbook Pro, pencils, Uni Posca paint pens, acrylics, and watercolor.
David is a unique balance of creative artist and business professional. He earned his business chops managing artists and high-profile clients in New York, and Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
David has recently become a game inventor, with Patents pending on his newest creation, Pants! the Card Game.
When David isn’t being Sparky Firepants, he weirds out his three children with goofy voices. He enjoys yoga, zen meditation, brewing beer, traveling the globe, all things Babar, and painting wooden stuff by hand. If you’re good he’ll tell you about the time he rode his motorcycle through a building. Beep beep.