The Saga of Captain Cheeseball: Volume II

The continued adventures of the misfit pirate Captain Cheeseball as he gets deeper into his secret quest to find a treasure for the king of the island nation of Flinginghamdunbergville. This second volume contains the next three books in the series: 'The First Real Adventure', 'A Whale of a Weigh Station' and 'Let the Trials Begin!!!'

Tom Richner is an Associate Professor of Animation at the Columbus College of Art and Design where he has taught since 2004. He specializes in traditional hand drawn animation and teaches a number of animation, storyboarding and film design courses. In 2008, Tom founded Cap City Studios, an animation production entity that draws upon the local animation talent in Columbus, Ohio to produce larger scale animation pieces. The studio has produced some commercials and also an animated pitch piece for a television series. He also works as an independent freelance animation artist, but is currently focused primarily on the production of a short animated film which he hopes to send to film festivals upon its completion. Before moving back to Ohio, Tom was a layout artist and sheet timer on the television show The Simpsons for six seasons, working closely with the directors and producers on over twenty episodes of that series. He also acted as a consultant on the Electronic Arts' production of The Simpsons Video Game in 2007. Tom holds an MFA in Animation from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, as well as a BFA in Fine Arts from Denison University in Granville, Ohio.