Todd Livingston
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Biography
Livingston began his career as a comedian in the critically acclaimed trio Open SeasonOpen Season
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. The group toured the U.S. and Canada, headlining clubs and colleges and becoming regulars at L.A’s Comedy Store, New York’s Comic Strip and Improv, where they would often share the stage with Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld , which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons,...
, Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler
Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician, and film producer.After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over $100 million at the box office...
and Chris Rock
Chris Rock
Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central...
.
During the slim non-touring time, Todd took gigs acting for network TV and movies, including Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program, hosted by Robert Stack, from 1987 until 2002, and later by Dennis Farina, starting in 2008...
and Umberto Lenzi
Umberto Lenzi
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’s cult horror favorite Hitcher in the Dark.
Livingston also co-wrote & produced and directed the supernatural comedy film So, You've Downloaded a Demon at Accidental Films and the graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
s, mainly published by Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
: America jr., The Black Forest and The Wicked West
The Wicked West
The Wicked West is a graphic novel series written by Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell and Illustrated by Neil Vokes. It is published by Image Comics...
, as well as The Living and The Dead, Chopper Zombie and the mini-series The Odd Squad.
Awards
The Black Forest won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror AwardsRondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award is an award presented annually by the Classic Horror Film Board to honor the top works in horror in film, television, home video, and publishing.-The award:...
for Best Horror Comic of 2004, and in 2005 The Black Forest 2 won the award again.