James Garland "JG" Quintel is the creator of Close Enough, and the voice of Josh Singleton. He also created the Cartoon Network series Regular Show. He was highly known for voicing the character Mordecai and worked on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Camp Lazlo, and Adventure Time.
Early life[]
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 studio 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.
Trivia[]
- Quintel's favorite episodes of Close Enough are "Logan's Run'd" and "Room Parents". [1]
- In an interview he revealed that one of his favorite season 2 episode is Josh Gets Shredded because Josh throwing out his back when he lift Candice, was actually based on something that happened to him when he picked up his kid.